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you.”
    “Baby doll, I keep telling you it’s not your fault. You have no reason to feel guilty about this. You paid me to watch after you and that’s what I did. Job’s done.”
    “I’m not doing this because I feel guilty, Jamie. I’m doing this because I care—”
    He slipped his hands out from underneath her hand and stepped around her. “If you want to help me, then…” He paused for a moment as he looked around the little cabin. “Then call my friend Brian.”
    “Brian?” She blinked in surprise. She had known Jamie for more than six months and this was the first time she could remember him mentioning a friend. “Brian who?”
    “Shaw. Brian Shaw. He’s a doctor. He just moved here a week or two ago.” He dropped into the chair and pressed a shaking hand against his eyes. “I don’t know his number but I think he’s supposed to be working at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington. I don’t know if he’s started yet, but maybe they can get a message to him. When you get hold of him, tell him Jamie needs his help and how to find me. Don’t tell him any more than that.”
    “Do you think he’d come with the roads so bad?”
    “He’ll come.” Jamie dropped his hand from his face. “Eventually. Maybe. If he refuses, tell him that I’m going to tell Kristen and Nathan the truth about Robin.” He snorted. “That should get him here.”
    Sarah frowned. “Kristen and Nathan? You mean the owners of the pub?” When he didn’t answer, her frown deepened. “Who’s Robin?”
    Jamie made a dismissive gesture with his hand. “It doesn’t matter. Just get hold of Brian,” he said closing his eyes. “He’ll patch me up and then I’ll be on my way.”
    “Jamie—”
    He lifted his head off the cushion and looked at her sadly. “Please, Sarah. Please get Brian here. The sooner he gets here; the sooner I can get out of here.”
    Sarah’s eyes filled with tears. She turned away so he wouldn’t see. “I’ll hurry over to the house and call the hospital from there.” She pulled on her coat and reached for the door. “After all, I wouldn’t want to keep you here any longer than necessary,” she said before slamming the door shut behind her.

 
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER THREE
     
     
    The rest of the afternoon passed rather slowly, as Sarah tried to reach Brian Shaw, and finally succeeding just before the sun set.
    It was a strange conversation , she thought after she had hung up. At first, the doctor pretended not to know Jamie. Even when she explained that he was hurt and needed help, Dr. Brian Shaw seemed strangely distant. Wary it seemed. It was only when she told him what Jamie was going to say to Kristen and Nathan that he suddenly remembered his friend and promised he’d come as soon as possible.
    Sarah hurried back to the cabin only to find Jamie asleep on the couch, his forehead still warm and he was moaning softly in his sleep. He awoke as she pressed a cold washcloth to his face, taking it from her hand, and telling her to stop worrying about him. With nothing else to do, she made dinner while Jamie went back to pacing around the room.
    They spoke briefly over a couple of bowls of chicken soup, tiptoeing around each other like a couple of strangers, keeping the conversation mainly to safe topics such as the weather and the roads outside. After a while, they lapsed into silence. Jamie seemed to sense she was upset, but seemed confused as to why, and Sarah for her part was just too tired to talk any longer.
    As soon as she had finished eating and she had changed into something more comfortable, she laid her head on the table, intending only to rest her eyes for a moment, but she promptly fell asleep.
    Sometime later, she awoke with a start, lifted her head off the table and blearily looked around the cabin, her gaze finding the clock above the fireplace, certain that it had to have been after midnight.
    Rubbing her eyes, she let out a little groan of despair. It wasn’t even nine