Christmas at Hope Cottage: A magical feel-good romance novel by Lily Graham

Author:Lily Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786813008
Publisher: Bookouture

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‘I don’t care what you say!’ shouted Emma, later that night. ‘I love him.’

Dot’s eyes were anxious as she tried to intervene. ‘Evie—’

Evie shot her a silencing look. Dot and Aggie had come over quickly when they’d heard the news. Uncle Joe had made himself scarce in the living room, telling them to, ‘Go easy on the child.’

‘You love him?’ she repeated. ‘You’re sixteen, for goodness’ sake.’

‘So?’

‘So, you don’t know what you’re talking about.’

‘Evie, is that helpful—’ began Dot.

‘What?’ spluttered Evie, rounding on her sister, her eyes blazing.

‘Come on, love, it’s not like it’s a surprise – we’ve all known she’s felt this way for years,’ said Aggie with a sigh, pinching the bridge of her nose.

Emma looked at her aunt gratefully and dashed away a tear.

Evie sighed, her anger starting to ebb. When Janet Allen had touched Emma, she had looked as if she could have cheerfully murdered her, but suddenly, all the fight seemed to go out of her. ‘Oh lass, he’s an Allen, I just don’t want you to get hurt and I just don’t see how else this is going to end.’

Emma looked up. ‘B-but he feels the same way.’ She looked back down at her feet. ‘I’m sure he does.’

‘Maybe, lass, I’m just not sure that’s going to make such a difference.’

‘You’d like that, wouldn’t you!’

‘No, actually I’d very much like to be wrong.’

Emma’s lip wobbled as she turned on her heel, marched upstairs and slammed the door, hoping to drown out Evie’s words with the sound of it shuddering closed.

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