by Emily Forbes
Stars were beginning to appear in the sky, and his neighbour was already halfway up the tree.
Did she do this often?
He wanted to ask, but also didn’t want to distract her—particularly now, as she was persuading the recalcitrant and possible wounded koala to let go of his perch.
Then she started back down, with the animal making grunting noises—protesting strongly at this treatment.
Cam wound in the rope, secured the coil beneath his feet, and lifted the bag so she could slip the captive into it.
‘There!’ she said. There was satisfaction in the word, but keeping the animal in the bag—one-handed—was easier said than done.
‘You can lift your foot and let me jump down now,’ said his neighbour—Lauren—and he realised she was still several feet above the ground.
He lifted his foot and held out his spare hand to steady her as she landed lightly beside him.
‘Thanks,’ she said, with a smile that made him wonder if this had all been a dream: the beautiful smiling woman, sooty again from the tree, the animal still complaining in the bag, the fading sunset behind the burnt-out forest where they stood and the glimmer of a silvery lake in front of them.
She was not at all the kind of woman who usually sent his body into a perfectly natural male response. Not that this could be compared with anything usual!
The timing couldn’t be worse—just settling into a new life, Maddie to think of, a practice to learn and run, a divorce to be settled—yet still she turned him on.
It had to be an enchantment of some kind.
He checked her out again—a quick, sidelong glance—wondering...
‘Come on,’ she said. ‘We have to check him out.’
Copyright © 2021 by Meredith Webber
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ISBN-13: 9781488074899
Rescuing the Paramedic’s Heart
Copyright © 2021 by Emily Forbes
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