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Zack brought his Land Rover to a stop at the side of the road and watched in the rear-view mirror as the figure ran down the road towards him. He was not normally in the habit of stopping for people who waved him down at bus stops, but on this occasion, he recognised the person doing the waving. Even then he wouldn’t usually have stopped, but she looked so desperate that he couldn’t simply drive on without at least finding out what was up.
“Thank God you stopped, Kier...” Emily cut herself off when she realised that it wasn’t her brother in the Land Rover she had just flagged down. “Sorry, Mr Wild, I thought you were Kieran; I can’t imagine why, up close, the two of you look nothing alike.”
“That’s okay, Emily, I’ve got no problem with being mistaken for someone half my age,” Zack sa
