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‘What’s your gut instinct?’

She hesitated as Gabe snapped his briefcase shut and turned his attention to the trio at the table, his eyes intent on her ‘Truth is I’m torn,’ she admitted ‘I think it’s innovative and brilliant, but the technology is untried at this scale and the outlay huge My heart tells o for it but my head is a lot ets in first, then we lose both the coe Gabe, what do you think? Honestly’

Gabe leant back against the wall, ar deep, to find so that convinced her, convinced her family

‘My parents use soas the concept I presented but their web and digital presence is very different fro the vineyard, restaurant and B&B virtually just as it is in reality Why don’t you come over and see? See how the physical h click-through rates, bookings and the uplift in spend’

Polly shifted nervously ‘Go to Provence?’ Go to Gabe’s horown up in?

A further blurring of the lines she kept trying to draw—and ended up rubbing out

‘That’s an excellent idea,’ Raff said war sio, Polly’ He looked at Gabe ‘If Pol agrees it’s a goer then you have my vote’

‘I agree’ Her grandfather was looking at her thoughtfully ‘Take your tile and then report back If Raff and I are a yes then the rest will fall into line But it needs your unequivocal approval, Polly It’s too amble for half-hearted efforts’

‘If we go this weekend the wine festival is on’ Gabe was checking his phone as he spoke ‘They have all kinds of stalls—wine, obviously, food, entertain just what the Rafferty pop-up brand will be’

Polly nodded, to all intents and purposes solely focused on theThis was all a little cosy

She had spent the last week trying to re-establish much-needed boundaries—and so evidently had he Now they had separate offices, now he spent so little ti of weakness was a one-off anomaly A symptom of shock