Harlequin Medical Romance September 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2: Falling at the Surgeon's Feet\Daredevil, Doctor...Husband?\Reunited...in Paris! by Lucy Ryder

Author:Lucy Ryder
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460394007
Publisher: Harlequin

CHAPTER SIX

‘TARGET SIGHTED—TWO O’CLOCK.’

The helicopter dipped and shuddered as Monty turned to circle the area. The stiff breeze made the top of the pine forest below sway enough to make an accurate estimation of clearance difficult.

‘Not sure I like this,’ Monty said. ‘Might need to winch you guys in.’

‘There’s more of a clearing at five o’clock. Where the logging trucks are.’

‘It’s a fair hike. The guy’s having trouble breathing.’

‘Winch me down,’ Summer said. ‘I’ll scoop him into the Stokes basket and we can transfer him to the clearing to stabilise him.’

‘You happy for Zac to winch you?’ Monty’s query sounded casual but this was the first time they’d been in a situation like this. In rough weather like this. Yes, Zac was winch trained but Summer would be putting her life in his hands.

She caught Zac’s gaze, and even through the muting effect of the visor on his helmet she could see—or maybe sense—the anticipation of her response and, in that instant, a seemingly casual query became so much bigger than being simply about the job they were all doing.

Did she trust Zac?

She wanted to. She had never wanted to trust anybody this much. Not with her life because she did that every time she took on a tricky winching job and she was used to putting that kind of trust in her colleagues.

No. This was about trusting a man with her heart and she’d never really done that before. But she wanted to. With Zac...

Monty was hovering over the area where the felling accident had occurred. An ambulance was bouncing along the rough track and stopped with a cloud of dust billowing from beneath its wheels.

‘Let’s wait and see what the crew thinks. We’ve only had the first aider’s story so far.’

The small reprieve in decision-making gave Summer the chance to let her mind go further down that secret pathway.

She was more than a little bit in love with Zac Mitchell. Maybe it had started that night he’d winked at her across his grandmother’s table last week. Or maybe it had started even before that—when he’d called that frightened elderly woman ‘sweetheart’ on that first job they’d ever done together.

The point of ignition didn’t really matter now, anyway. What did matter was what happened next. She might want to take that next—huge—step of trusting him completely but it was debatable whether she was capable of it. Summer had no experience of going that far in a relationship but a lot of experience in pushing people away when she sensed any kind of a threat. She’d learned how to do that a very long time ago, when she’d only been a teenager. When she’d pushed her previously beloved father completely out of her life. She’d pushed other men away too, when they started to get too close.

That excuse of her career being more important wasn’t really the truth at all, was it? She’d always had that whisper of warning that came in her mother’s voice.

You can never trust a man.

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