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“Why would a church have fake baguettes next to the pulpit?”

“I don’t know To appease the French?”

“I don’t think the French pray to the baguette Gods” Miles looked at the baguette then at me “Do you have a bread knife?”

“Oh, yeah, I keep them in my back pocket No woman can be without one”

Actually, life would be more bearable if one could keep bread, butter, and a knife on one’s person

“You are on fire today,” he muttered “Where can I find one?”

“The kitchen is through there,” a fahtly open Go through there, take the next one on your left, and you’ll find the kitchen”

I turned and looked at my deadly enemy

All right, so deadly eneeration, but I couldn’t be entirely sure that Heidi Williams had not tried to kill me ere fifteen

That was a long story, and as far as she was concerned, she really hadn’t meant to drive that quad bike into , so it was fine

Right

Like that was real

Heidi and I had a long, convoluted history that ultimately culminated into one simple fact: we hated each other

As a rule, I was not a hateful person I could hold a grudge as well as the next person—a little too well, probably—but I tried not to hate people After all, I’d learnt that nine tis weren’t actually bad people, but good people going through a bad time

It didn’t excuse their decisions, but nobody was perfect, but it did lend hope for the goodness of humanity

Of course, bad people existed, but I was going off on a tangent here

Heidi, however, I genuinely believed was not a good person

That, or she really, really hated me, far more than any child ever should have hated another as a child

Despite co a part of the aristocracy wasn’t all sunshine and roses General privilege aside, as a child, I really was just that Kids didn’t s, Queens, Princes, and Princesses, so the fact I had a title was just so la-di-dah to a lot of kids at my school

As ave way to

Heidi Willia in town Fro secondary school at sixteen, she was a thorn in my side to endure I’d been deterht h I probably should have been honest with him at some point

I’d only seen her in passing for the last several years She’d left for university, gotten a job in London, and that was the last I’d heard of her until recently

Now, here she was

In front ofMiles far more attention than he warranted

What?

I was totally holding a grudge fro

I was a good person having a bad day

End of discussion

“That one next to the spider plant?” Miles asked her

Heidi sht there”