Outback Midwives--3 Book Box Set by Fiona McArthur

Author:Fiona McArthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release
Published: 2016-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Harry watched her disappear into the departure area and then turned away, but her accusations haunted him. Accusations he didn’t want to think about. Was he egotistical and self-absorbed? He would have said self-protective. Or was it just the thought of practising medicine that jerked him into denial?

It was as well he hadn’t had more time before her flight left because he didn’t know what he would have been capable of to try and talk her into staying just a little longer. To try to explain.

What was she saying? What did she mean? That someone else could have been there to help him when he’d lost his own baby? Someone like him, turning his back? Like Steve and that short-term job at the Rock and his own refusal to go?

He couldn’t do it. Or could he? He’d managed with the baby but that had been a close thing. Could he go back to diagnoses and the mistakes that left him open to self-recrimination?

Then again, could he not? Life was looking pretty damn empty right at this moment.

During the drive back to Ubud, Harry noticed things he hadn’t seen for a long time. Things Bonnie had pointed out to him with excitement.

He saw the families, crammed on motorbikes, children sitting on bags of grain behind their fathers, mums balancing their two-wheeled pick-ups as if it was the most normal thing in the world to carry a table on a motor bike.

It had always been this way as the motorcycle could be afforded and the car not, and suddenly to Harry it seemed incredibly alien to see babies, cradled by their precariously squashed mothers, jammed onto scooters between husbands and other children.

The small trucks packed with workers in the back; the Indonesian signage and waving palm trees were suddenly more visible. And here he was, pretending to be a part of it all when, in fact, he was really a bystander. An isolated one too scared to be involved in his own world where he belonged.

Harry’s world was in turmoil and Bonnie had done it. Bonnie and a little girl now safe in her mother’s arms.

Bonnie had been there when he’d been screaming inside, This baby’s going to die too, the scene fraught with emotion. An unwanted return to a situation he’d chosen to avoid, and now where was he? Apart from profoundly appreciative of her calm in an emergency, maybe it was the frailty of a toddler’s breathing and the fact that he and Bonnie had skills to save a life that had him thinking.

Or maybe it was just Bonnie who was attracting these medical disasters. He’d managed to avoid them for the last year. He’d known her three days and they’d had two already.

He saw his life, drifting from one leisurely Balinese day to the next, focused on the small issues, never thinking of the large ones in case it made him aware of what he’d chosen to discard in his fear of being hurt again.

Maybe he did need a dose of Bonnie McKenzie’s reality to kick him back into gear.

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