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Rainne didn’t have an answer for that She didn’t knohat to do with herself, either He tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear

“I shouldn’t be giving you advice,” he said “I’m invested I want you to stay here With me And part of h force, then you ain “But I don’t want you to stay because I tell you to stay I want you to be here because this is your choice”

Rainne sed hard It didn’t make any sense that he could be so certain about what he wanted out of life and she didn’t have a clue

“I’ll try harder,” she said

“Oh Rainbow,” he said with a shake of his head

He cupped her cheek and kissed her gently

“I’ll get pudding,” he said as he gathered the dishes “I need to learn toelse This curry stinks”

As he disappeared downstairs, Rainne tried to figure out what to do She’d spent a lifeti her parents, and that was a hard habit to break Plus, as Lake kept pointing out to her, she had no skills for the real world All she kne to do were the things she’d grown up doing—fighting for her parents’ causes She had to find out if Lake et a chance to run the shop Her stoht She worried that it was just a matter of time before she was back in the sa the business into the ground while waiting for him to turn up and sort it out

Kirsty was astonished at how quickly her new Scotland-the Her h they had insisted that they needed new T-shirts to sew in They were all now proudly wearing ones that said SOD-OFF while they worked It was only a few days to the show and it looked like she would actually have a collection to present Which was fantastic, as the toas buzzing with people There were even photographers froazines and newspapers, lured there by the “InverTARTY” headlines and the fact that Kirsty Ca

It was a lot to live up to—especially since she was still tworeplacements

“Coain “If we scrub off your nise you anyway”

“I aenta told her “Not even you Plus it’s freezing out there Bits could fall off it’s so cold I don’t want to risk it I like my bits”

Magenta had a point Kirsty needed to figure out a way to keep the models she did have warm An idea flickered in the back of her head

“Fine,” she said “If you won’tas many fur coats as you can rustle up?”

Magenta stared at her, black bob falling across one eye