I’ll drive in front and keep a lookout for somewhere while you follow in Theodora, if that’s all right with you.’ She nodded, in a state of bliss to have her car back and to be spending the day with Hugo without any strings attached. A sandwich by the roadside and a bottle of water would do fine as far as she was concerned, but she doubted that he had anything so mundane in mind. They’d just left the motorway and he was ahead of her on a quiet side road when the driver of a car in the process of overtaking her lost control and, missing Theodora by inches, ended up in a ditch by the roadside. Ruby slammed on the brakes, and flinging herself out of her car ran towards it. A woman in her thirties or thereabouts was slumped unconscious over the steering-wheel when she looked inside and to her horror there was a baby wailing in distress fastened in a child’s seat in the back of the car. Hugo had appeared beside her, having seen the crashed car so narrowly miss hers from where he’d been driving a short distance in front.
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