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Dan knew all about looking after visitors, female ones in particular. He had a natural, easy charm and, together with his obvious good looks, it made him very attractive. But much as she was enjoying his attention, Brianna knew she wasn’t going to be one of his conquests. She preferred the slightly less obvious, the less easy. In truth, although she hated to admit it, Mitch was the one who’d grabbed her interest. Overbearing and ill-mannered he might be, but his surprising deep brown eyes drew a woman in, and his forceful personality made her sit up and take notice. Even though she might not want to.
    Dan had moved ahead of her and was now unzipping the entrance to a tatty looking white tent she guessed she’d be calling home.
    ‘Here you go. It might not be much, but after a day around here, trust me, you’ll be glad to get back to it,’ he remarked as he placed her luggage on the floor. ‘There is a temporary shower just around the corner. The water’s cold, but it will definitely freshen you up. Alternatively, some of us go and bathe in the lake. It’s okay, as long as you watch out for crocodiles.’
    Brianna shivered. ‘I think I’ll go for the shower.’
    ‘Probably a wise choice,’ Dan agreed with a grin. ‘I’ll leave you to sort yourself out. When you feel like some company, come to the main medical tent. There are sure to be a few of us around.’
    Left on her own, Brianna sank down on the camp bed. Okay, she didn’t sink. That would imply a degree of give in the brick-like mat that was trying to pass for a mattress. Oh heck, she so wanted to cry, but that would be weak and she was determined not to act like the spoilt brat some probably believed her to be. Mitch for one. Then again, why should his opinion of her matter? He was just a jumped up doctor. If she wanted, she thought with a flash of anger, she could get him fired.
    As quickly as it had arrived, the anger vanished and she was left feeling stupid and a tiny bit scared. That was exactly the type of attitude she hated. Sure Mitch had been less than welcoming, but at the end of the day her only real gripes were that he’d given her a box to carry and not opened the truck door for her. Considering what he had on his plate at the moment, they were hardly crimes of the century.
    Half an hour and a cold shower later, Brianna was feeling a little more human again.
    ‘Have you managed to find everything you need?’
    In the act of folding her towel over the end of the bed, Brianna looked up with a start, shocked to find Mitch walking unannounced into her tent. ‘Do you always come into a woman’s room uninvited?’
    Mitch raised an eyebrow. ‘It depends on the woman.’
    ‘Well this woman wants you to wait until you’re invited.’ She didn’t want to act like a brat, but she wasn’t going to let him trample all over her, either.
    ‘But then I might be waiting a long time,’ he replied calmly, nonchalantly leaning against a tent pole.
    Something she couldn’t deny. ‘What did you want?’ she asked somewhat churlishly.
    Mitch sighed. ‘Look, I came to check you were all right, that’s all. I apologise for not knocking first, but it’s damn hard to do that on a tent.’
    Against her will, Brianna’s lips twitched slightly. ‘Point taken. And yes, thank you, I’m fine. I feel a lot better after a shower and change of clothes.’
    ‘I’m sorry we couldn’t arrange an en suite for you.’ Mitch regarded her with steady brown eyes and she didn’t know if it was a joke, or a dig. Probably the latter, though this time she wasn’t going to rise to the bait. ‘What’s in those?’
    Brianna followed the direction of his gaze, over to the two large brown boxes. At the time, her idea had seemed like a good one. Now, under Mitch’s tough scrutiny and having seen the grimness of the situation first hand, she wasn’t so sure. ‘Just something I brought from home I thought might be … useful.’ She tried to distract him. ‘Have you