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Like the images of the fifteen-year-old unlicensed and unrestrained driver, her long, blonde hair matted with blood, the fear she felt when she’d realised the two cars would collide preserved for all eternity in her open blue eyes as she lay broken and lifeless on the bitumen.
And of her cowardly nineteen-year-old boyfriend reeking of alcohol and protesting to the police officers questioning him that it had all been her idea to drive, and that it wasn’t his fault.
But then the gut-wrencher, the female driver of the other car trapped and barely clinging to life in the small hatchback that had been crushed like tinfoil when the high-powered Subaru had run the red light. Even the Jaws of Life he’d wielded hadn’t been strong or fast enough to cut through the wreck in time to save her life, before her heavily pregnant body had been rushed to hospital in a desperate mission to save her baby.
Yeah, sometimes life sucked.
What a fucking mess. He sighed as he rubbed the back of his neck. He’d joined the fire brigade to put out fires, not to scrape people off the road. Although that was only half true. He’d joined because, going back three generations, that was what the men in his family did. From saving people and property, their pets and livestock from fires to demonstrating to the public at the annual Royal Adelaide Show how to use a fire extinguisher. And, sure, rescuing the odd kitten stuck in a tree. God, how he wished today had been all about rescuing kittens.
“That was a rough one,” he heard Richo say behind him. “I sure could do with a cold one after that. You in?”
“Maybe.” He nodded to get rid of his crew mate, to make it look like Caleb was on the same page, but he knew what he needed when he felt like this wasn’t a day off. It was Ava.
He needed Ava.
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Award-nominated and multi-published Australian contemporary romance author Victoria Purman loves books, wine, chocolate, sad country music, hard rock songs and stories with happy ever afters. Writing romance means she regularly gets to indulge in all those things – as well as being forced into online pictorial research for her emotional, funny and smart love stories. In 2014, Victoria was a finalist in the RuBY Awards (the Romance Writers of Australia’s “Romantic Book of the Year” Awards) for the first book on her Boys of Summer series for Harlequin MIRA, Nobody But Him. That same year, she was named a finalist in the category “Favourite New Author 2013” by the Australian Romance Readers Association. Most days, she considers herself the luckiest woman in the world.
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