Magical Moments at the Little Clock on the Green by Eve Devon

Author:Eve Devon [Eve Devon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Never Work With Animals

Gloria

Gloria looked from the unanswered door of Old Man Isaac’s cottage to the absence of his car in the driveway. Disappointment weighed heavy, making her even more irritable because, honestly? People talked about checking on your elderly neighbours and when you did, it turned out they weren’t even in.

She’d waited longer than any delivery-person was ever trained to wait but never did, and then she’d added on more time, hoping to see his little car pull into the drive but now, officially out of patience, she turned on her heel, wrenched open the garden gate and harrumphed off down the road.

Call her a conspiracist but lately it was as if Old Man Isaac knew exactly when she was en-route and quickly Mission Impossible’d himself a sharp exit. Delivery drivers were probably in on it, she thought grumpily. Honking their horns in secret code to let him know she was heading his way for tea, sympathy and much more importantly, advice.

Okay, yes – Isaac had mentioned he didn’t think she needed his counsel anymore, but, grrr, she’d thought she’d made it clear that wasn’t his decision to make. Especially after a night spent disappearing down the rabbit-hole of working out exactly what should and definitely should not go into a conversation with Bob about possible impending nuptials.

Hoping to take the edge off the irritability, she picked up her pace and considered asking if Fort Tuna the Terra Pest provided in situ, earpiece-and-coaching services but then decided that sort of request was going to land her straight back in raised-eyebrows land.

Maybe if she could work out exactly why she was feeling so fractious? Because while it didn’t take advanced data analytics to figure out she definitely felt something squirrely (last night’s trail of Google searches for moving to the other side of the world was proof enough), it was more the ‘why’ of it that alarmed her.

Was she that jealous of Bob formalising his relationship with Bobby?

Because it wasn’t as if she was still stuck in place.

She’d moved on and was in fact in a better place.

And what – wanting a Happy Ever After for herself?

She stopped abruptly at the edge of the woods, her heart thumping.

Surely wanting the very thing she didn’t believe in was the definition of insanity? Unless deep down she really was insane and always had believed?

Bloody hell … wasn’t that exactly what Seth had been implying when she’d made her stupid marmite and marriage comparison and he’d quietly reminded her how much she loved marmite?

And while she’d only been able to stare at him, temporarily lost for words, hadn’t his expression softened? As if he’d been thinking it was sweet she refused to even grapple with the notion and could only keep on protesting she’d never believe in Happy Ever After.

A mindful walk in nature lost to her now she took off at a jog through the wood. Fast, faster she went, as if to outpace the indignity of discovering Seth might have been right on the money about her.

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