The Doctor's Mistress

‘So it might have been several minutes before he even got there.’

‘Longer, on that stretch of road, on a weeknight.’

‘Did he check them out?’

‘He has no first-aid or emergency training so he was reluctant to do anything.’

‘Which was the right thinking. How near the border?’

‘Don’t know. Dispatch didn’t have any more details. They’ve got the second crew on standby. We’ve got road rescue and police on the way, too.’

‘So it could be forty kilometres?’

‘Fifty, if ‘‘near the border’’ means on the Victorian side.’

‘I hate that stretch of highway!’

Hayley shivered. She’d driven it many times over the past couple of years, taking Max to visit his father in Melbourne.

Once out of town, on the Princes Highway, heading south, Bruce brought the car’s speed up to the edge of safety. It was a Thursday night, just over a week after Tori Black’s first day at preschool, and the road was deserted. The shadows of the eucalypts reared strangely in the powerful headlights, and the road’s many bends made it anything but a relaxing drive.

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