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“No need to be so tetchy,” she tittered “I will I’ll be back soon”

She turned away, and I paused

Her brother-in-law bought a farm nearby?

There was no farmland up for sale here

There was, however, a few ss of less than five acres up for rent

“Heidi, that farm?”

She stilled, looking over her shoulder “Yes?”

“Do you know the address?”

She frowned “I think it’s… Hang on” She pulled her phone frolossy blue nail “Oak Wood Cottage Just outside Arrow Woods”

A childish little fissure of pleasure ran through ht? With a ss?”

Heidi froze “How do you know that?”

It was e is a s on Arroood Estate that went up for rent three o”

Her jaw tightened

“Whatever your brother-in-law told you, he’s renting Fro hiardener is needed on that property, Miles already tells them what to do”

If she hadn’t frozen before, she really had now Given the way she spoke to me, she hadn’t known that inforhtened her face said she wasn’t happy about it

“I have brea—” Miles froze, and I caught his gaze as it flickered betweenwrong?”

“No, it’s fine Heidi was just leaving Weren’t you?” I said coldly, giving her a look that said I was done with her bullshit, and I wasn’t going to take it anymore

That despite the years of bullying as a child, where she’d alwaysownership of who I was in this particular relationship

I was no longer going to let her walk all over me

Especially when she was on the back foot like she was right now

Heidi glanced between both me and Miles with venom in her eyes “Yeah, I was I should have knohat I’d find when I came here”

How dramatic of her

“Should I ask?” Miles set the basket full of fresh, buttered bread that gave off the e pot of soup

“No I wouldn’t bother,” I responded

“I’ to”

“Of course you are”

“What’s wrong with her?”

“Oh, that’s easy” I picked up an empty bowl and ladled soup into it until it was full, then held it out to hi s and she wasn’t”