Chapters (96)

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96

‘Part of his trousers,’ she said triumphantly, tossing the scrap next to the shard of blade. ‘You can take the forceps out now, and, JJ, you can stand down, dude.’

Jibber-jabber let out his breath and collapsed on to the next bed. Samira gratefully returned the forceps to the saucepan as Maeve sloshed antiseptic into the wound.

‘Can you stitch?’ she asked.

‘Yes. We didn’t think it was worth it before, it was such a small hole.’

‘It’s not so small any more.’

‘I’m an idiot,’ said Samira. ‘I should have got the sewing stuff before. I’ll need to go back to the labs. If I hurry, I can probably just make it over there before they close down for the night.’

‘Go to it. And I think we’d better risk some antibiotics. I’ll accept responsibility. And you, Robbie, can relax …’

But Robbie had passed out.

‘If only he’d done that sooner,’ said Maeve. ‘Would have made it a whole lot easier for all of us.’

‘That was well awesome,’ said Lewis, nodding his head in approval.

‘You guys can get back to whatever it was you were doing.’

Maeve stood over Robbie and wiped his forehead again with the damp cloth.

‘Cool.’ Lewis sauntered out.

Maeve waited for the older boys to leave, then sat down before her wobbly legs gave way. She was exhausted. Felt like she’d run a marathon. She’d been incredibly tense and now her body was being flooded with endorphins that were turning her a little spacey.

She couldn’t really believe what she’d just done.

Chapter 25

Jibber-jabber couldn’t believe what Maeve had just done either. He’d not only been holding in the words that usually poured out of him, he also badly needed the toilet. He’d forgotten about it while Maeve had been digging around in Robbie’s leg. He’d been too transfixed by the operation, but now he was reminded, as a pain gripped his guts and he felt a dangerous rumbling and bubbling inside. If he didn’t do something about it soon there was going to be an accident. The only thing was, he was nervous of going down to the toilets. He never went by himself if he could help it. He was subtle about it. He didn’t want to be thought of as a wimp, even though – he had to admit – he was one. Usually he’d wait until a group of kids were going down and tag along with them. There was always a rush before lockdown, but he’d left it too late tonight.