‘Actually, if you’d remove yourself and your brood from the vicinity, I could continue what I was doing before you interrupted. Not snogging, as you so indelicately put it, but persuading this woman to turn a maybe into a yes.’
‘I’m out of here,’ Mike said, standing up and calling to his children. They came scampering around the corner, and he lifted the twins, one on each arm. ‘I only came to say Sue has spread the word. The hospital’s Sunday barbecue is at our place tonight.’
He walked towards the steps then turned back to say, ‘Maybe you’ll have an announcement to make. Something we can all drink to—a toast to the future!’
Connor walked to the steps with him and watched as he returned to his car, then he came back and this time pulled his chair so it was beside Caitlin’s.
‘Will we have an announcement to make?’ he asked, and she looked into his eyes, seeing not the blue-green colour but the love he felt for her.
‘Soon,’ she said. ‘But for now let’s keep it to ourselves. Let’s enjoy getting to know each other better, and just being together, before announcing anything and having the whole town intrude on our relationship.’
Connor leaned over and kissed her on the lips.
‘You’ve been away from country towns too long,’ he told her, ‘if you think it takes an announcement for the town to intrude. Just yesterday Mrs Rennie’s daughter brought me an embroidered towel kind of thingy her mother had made as an engagement present.’
‘Oh!’ Caitlin said, then she kissed him back, because if the town was about to intrude she had to make the most of every moment she had alone with this man!
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IMPRINT: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9780857996022
TITLE: OUTBACK DOCTORS: OUTBACK ENGAGEMENT/OUTBACK MARRIAGE/OUTBACK ENCOUNTER
First Australian Publication 2014
Copyright © 2014 MEREDITH WEBBER
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