Summer At Willow Tree Farm: the perfect romantic escape for your summer holiday by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice [Rice, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-07-19T18:30:00+00:00

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They arrived back at the farmyard an hour later, Ellie buoyed by her chat with Rick who said the grant application was just a rubber-stamping exercise now. She’d also managed to nip into Helena’s workshop on Candlestick Hill to see the signs in progress. Two more things to tick off two of her to-do lists. Jacob too seemed a little less downtrodden as he began unloading the lumber. Probably hoping she was going to work a miracle with Art.

‘Do you want some help taking this in?’ Ellie asked, psyching herself up for a quiet chat with their project manager. It wasn’t as if they hadn’t spoken to each other since the kiss. And confronting him in a work environment would make it easy to keep things on a professional level.

Jacob threw her a pair of work gloves. ‘That would be great, but don’t take anything too heavy. I can get one of the lads to help bring in the rest.’

With a load of lumber under her arm, Ellie followed Jacob past the farmhouse and across the yard. The sounds of hammering and drilling greeted them, floating on a breeze perfumed by the apples in the orchard. Ellie’s spirits soared as she rounded the blasted stone of the barn’s back wall.

It had been over a week since she’d had a chance to look in on the build in the daylight and the changes were amazing. Huge bricked arches led into the cavernous interior of the barn, its high ceilings suspended by oak beams. The darkly stained wood looked elegant and yet earthy against the recently plastered walls. Light flooded in from the domed glass Art had suggested adding at the construction stage in the cavity that had once been the old barn doors.

With the cabinets and shelving being built at one end, while the kitchen equipment was being installed at the other, the space was a hive of men – and one woman – busy doing everything from sanding wood to laying ceramic tiles. She spotted Mike in one corner painting the plasterwork in the fresh lime green Dee had suggested. She knew from the financials that Art had hired a bunch of workers from Gratesbury to steamroll through the final week of construction, so Dee and Tess could get in next weekend to start putting in the finishing design touches and arrange the produce for the opening.

Once that happened, it was going to look incredible. It looked incredible already. How had Art managed to get all this done in only three weeks? Her admiration for him increased.

She scanned the interior, and then she spotted him, standing at the main kitchen counter. The faded tattoo flexed on his biceps as he shuffled and rearranged the plans and then began to explain something on them to Rob. His thick wavy hair was sheened with sweat and a fine layer of dust. The toolbelt lay low on his hips like a western gunslinger’s bullet belt.

His head came up as she and Jacob picked their way through the melee to pile the lumber on a workbench.

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