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“Ouch That’s rough” I stopped and looked at her “Do you knohat you need?”
She blinked atit, to be honest”
“Right” Of course she was I should have known “Do you rab what I need then come back and find you?”
“You want to leave arden centre? With all the plants?” Her dark eyebrows arched in disbelief “Don’t tell erous”
I fought back a set lost, call me, and I’ll come and find you”
She looked around longingly at all the plants “Oh, you can try”
“Your father called me and expressly said no more house plants, princess”
“Not a princess” Gabriella fingered the edge of the large, waxy-looking green monstera leaf “But we don’t have a monstera,” she replied wistfully “And it’s so pretty Look how green it is”
“He said no I’e And I would like to keep my job, so please listen to me”
“I’ll put it in my room”
“I’ with you”
“You could have fooled me” She narrowed her eyes at me “Did he really call you?”
“Yep That’s how I know about the debit card he gave you preloaded with e project Not the project where you try to turn your bedroom into the Eden Project”
She pouted “My bedroom is not the Eden Project”
“Not yet” I rubbed my hand across my jaw “I counted fourteen houseplants in there, Gabriella”
“The spider plant keeps having babies Am I supposed to abort them?”
“You could put theift shop”
“How do I know they’ll look after them properly?”
“You don’t, but you’re one plant away frole”
“It’s either the Eden Project or a jungle It can’t be both”
“Have you been to the Eden Project? It is a jungle”
“I see no issue with any of this” She sighed “But you’re right It’s not like the et for the project”
I blew out a sigh of relief Not only had it takenI’d needed, but Henry really had called me and warned me about her addiction to houseplants I was a little surprised, given they were quite sparse in the rooms I’d seen inside, but apparently, he’d humoured her little houseplant love until they ran out of space in the part of Arroood Hall that was open to the public
Now she was on a strict no-houseplant buying ban