Family Ties at the Second Chances Sweet Shop by Hannah Lynn

Author:Hannah Lynn [Lynn, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

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‘What the hell are you doing?’ Holly demanded, as she raced out the back door. ‘What the hell?’

Fin was standing at the far end of the garden. The shed end. The shed where Jamie kept all her work tools securely padlocked away and even had a small camera on it – the same type that had caught Giles planting a mouse in the shop – to make sure nothing was stolen. But at that moment, she wasn’t looking at the shed, she was looking at her raspberry bushes, or rather at where they had been, between the shed and Ben’s garden hedge.

It was like a scene from a disaster movie. Upturned earth. Plants torn up by their roots and trampled on the ground. Not a single thing left standing. For a moment, she couldn’t even speak.

‘My raspberry bushes,’ she said when she finally found her voice again. ‘What the hell have you done?’ she said, looking around. ‘My gooseberries too!’

Angry tears pricked her eyes, seeing how far spread the destruction was.

‘What on earth were you thinking?’

Fin stood motionless.

‘These were plants?’ he asked, looking bemused.

Never before had his Californian drawl grated so much.

‘Of course they were plants. They were my plants. My fruit.’

He stood there, gawping like a fish out of water.

‘I thought… I thought… I think I might have made a mistake.’

‘You think?’ she said, heat burning her cheeks.

He had obviously been busy. Not only had he cleared her raspberry and gooseberry bushes, but almost all her blackberries and red currents, and the bed she’d covered in straw to keep her strawberries protected from the winter frost had been entirely dug up. Basically, everything she’d planted last year when she’d first moved in had gone.

‘I’m seriously sorry. I didn’t realise.’

‘Why are you even out here?’ she spat.

She knew she had to share her home with this man, but did that include the garden? There had been an unspoken understanding between her and Jamie that this was her domain. Not only did she tend her herbs and fruit, but she mowed the lawn and kept the weeds under control, too. Jamie used the shed and would sit on the patio when the weather was good enough, but that was pretty much it.

Now, however, all that seemed to have changed.

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