The Doctor Calling by Meredith Appleyard

Author:Meredith Appleyard
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781760142070
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2016-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

The back door banged and Jake looked up from where he was watering a straggly lemon tree. He had no idea why he was bothering for the dozen or so wizened-looking lemons. Skip stood up, pulling on his chain and wagging his tail. Laura detoured to pat him and murmured something that made his tail wag faster. Christ, if she gave him as much attention as she did the dog, his tail would wag as well.

‘Neill’s not travelling so well, is he.’ It wasn’t a question.

‘No,’ he said. He dropped the end of the hose on the ground under the tree and went to turn off the tap.

What was she brewing? He could feel her steady gaze on his back and she’d been talking to the old man for a while. He turned to her, not in the mood for a lecture.

She folded her arms and scuffed the ground with her foot.

‘Where’s your bike?’ she said, peering into the carport at Neill’s battered 4WD ute.

‘Out at the farm.’

‘Oh.’

‘Laura,’ he snapped when he couldn’t bear her standing staring at him any longer, ‘was there something you wanted?’

Bearing the brunt of his abruptness, she seemed to have made up her mind about something and her expression visibly changed. She exhaled slowly.

‘No, not really,’ she said simply. She spun around and in four strides was at the gate fumbling with the latch. Seconds later it slammed shut behind her.

Why the bloody hell there was a gate there in the first place he had no idea.

He scratched his head. As pissed off as he was with everyone and everything right at that moment, he could still admire the way her shorts covered her backside like a second skin, the smooth, golden length of her legs. He wasn’t sure about the short hair, though. It looked good on her but there was something about that thick braid, the silky feel and fragrance of her hair that one and only time he’d been close enough. He growled, swore again and went back into the house.

The dog retreated to his kennel, ears flat, tail between his legs.

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