Rescue At Cradle Lake by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2006-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

GINNY had no intention of returning to the house. Neither did she want to go Fergus’s apartment, attached via a connecting door to the hospital, with all the connotations that held.

But down on the lake was the Viental boatshed. In her awful teenage years, Ginny had used it as a refuge. She’d gone there when life had simply overwhelmed her. It didn’t seem like home. It didn’t seem like any other place. It was simply the boatshed—her retreat from the world.

She directed Fergus. They drove in silence, with Fergus every now and then glancing across at her, as if reassuring himself that she was still there. Still real.

She sat with her hands clasped loosely on her knees and tried not to think the same of him. This was a moment out of time, she thought. One grasped moment of unreality, a gift not to be extended. A magic disappearing gift, here for tonight but gone in the morning. The contact with someone who shared…her heart?

Let’s not be fanciful, she told herself, but her lips curved in a tiny smile that wasn’t quite mockery. She looked sideways and found Fergus was smiling as well. An echo?

Just for tonight, she told herself. Just for tonight.

The world was holding its breath.

The boatshed was nestled in a patch of natural bushland just off the road. Fergus pulled the car onto the verge. He grabbed his jacket from over the seat and Ginny grinned.

‘You need a jacket?’

‘My phone’s in the pocket,’ he said apologetically, and her smile died.

‘Medical imperatives, huh?’

‘I did agree to take this job.’

‘Are we expecting medical imperatives?’

‘They’d have to be pretty damned imperative. You unlock the boatshed. I’ll get my bag out of the back.’

‘Because it contains medical imperatives?’

‘Absolutely.’

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