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off-limits, she didn’t have
many other options in terms of sex or romance. Aside from the cute pilot who
dropped off supplies every two months, there were no other single, eligible men
to lust over.
    “You should’ve asked him to stay for dinner,” Lissa added,
slinging an arm around Julia’s shoulder.
    At six feet, Lissa towered over Julia’s five-foot-five frame.
Some of the men on staff teased the Aussie about her monstrous height, but truth
was, everyone was a little bit in awe of Lissa. Now Lissa would definitely be Sebastian Stone’s type. A tall, gorgeous
redhead with a great rack and endless legs?
    Call her selfish, but Julia was kind of glad Sebastian had
already left before Lissa came outside. No doubt the man would have been
drooling all over his hiking boots.
    “He had a flight to catch,” she replied as the two women headed
inside.
    “Pity. You could’ve benefited from a good shag.”
    Julia burst out laughing. “Why are you so concerned with my sex
life? Seriously, you talk about it a scary amount.”
    “I just don’t like seeing my mates work themselves to the bone,
love. I wish you’d let yourself have some fun.”
    “I’ll have fun in three months.”
    She neglected to mention how incredibly not fun the thought of heading home was, but because Doctors
International demanded mandatory breaks between placements, she had no choice
but to return to Boston when her time was up.
    The nine-months-on, three-months-off cycle was liable to kill
her. She’d joined D.I. the second she’d finished her residency, and she’d been
with the organization for three years now. She was already dreading returning to
Boston and twiddling her thumbs for twelve weeks while she waited for her next
cycle to begin. She usually spent the time off taking shifts at a colleague’s
private practice and counting the days until she could go overseas again.
    “Anyway,” she added as they headed for the small nurses’
station past the waiting room, “you can have fun for the both of us.” She
grinned. “That is, if you’re still planning on seducing Kev?”
    “Definitely,” Lissa declared, her vivid green eyes shining with
mischief. “The second you and Marcus graciously bestow me with a night off, I
will be sneaking into Dr. Carlisle’s tent and finally putting us both out of our
misery.”
    “You have been dancing around each other for six months now.
It’s about time.”
    “Exactly.” Lissa pulled out the elastic restraining her hair
and retied the curly red strands in a fresh ponytail. “I’ll see you later, love.
Sally needs help with those vaccinations.”
    Julia watched the nurse bounce off in her usual lively fashion.
Earlier, when she’d told Sebastian that her colleagues were her family, she
hadn’t been kidding. Lissa truly had become like a sister to her. Kevin was her
teasing older brother. Marcus was the father figure she’d lacked her entire
life. Helga, the midwife on staff, was the sweet grandmother who handed out
endless words of wisdom.
    With both her father and sister gone, Julia was all alone in
the world. Sure, she still had her mother, but the two of them had never been
close, and once Darlene moved to the West Coast a few years back, they’d
completely lost touch. Not that Julia was beat-up over it—Darlene Davenport was
a cold, self-absorbed woman without a single maternal bone in her body, and
Julia was better off without her.
    “Jules, I need you in here.”
    Shifting her gaze, she caught sight of Nadir Patel poking his
head out of an exam room. Along with Julia, Kevin and Marcus, Nadir was the
fourth physician on staff. In his native India, he had run a thriving pediatrics
practice, so he was responsible for dealing with the younger patients in
Valero.
    “Everything okay?” she called.
    “I’m attempting to take a blood sample and our patient is a tad
cranky. Perhaps you could lend a hand?”
    A loud, petulant wail came from the exam room, telling Julia
that Nadir’s