Springtime at Wildacre: the gorgeously uplifting, feel-good romance (Animal Ark Revisited Book 3) by Lucy Daniels

Springtime at Wildacre: the gorgeously uplifting, feel-good romance (Animal Ark Revisited Book 3) by Lucy Daniels

Author:Lucy Daniels [Daniels, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2018-04-27T23:00:00+00:00


Chapter Seventeen

Mandy was just finishing up in the clinic on Monday, when Harriet walked in. Mandy was pleasantly surprised to see her, but a bit thrown – she didn’t have the triplets with her, and she didn’t have a pet who could need treatment.

It had been an exhausting day already. She had been woken at five in the morning by Mrs Waterstone at Woodbridge. Her patient had been a cow with staggers – life-threatening magnesium deficiency – and Mandy had dashed from her bed and up to the farm as quickly as she could. She had saved the cow, but then there had been another call out, this time to a cow that had gone down due to calcium deficiency. That patient had also rallied, but there had been no time to return to bed. Lunch had been three bites of a sandwich between a hoof-trimming session at Baildon Farm and afternoon surgery. Adam had been out at a colic most of the afternoon. It really had been crazily busy.

‘Could I have a word with you?’ Harriet asked Mandy.

‘Of course.’ Mandy checked with Helen that she had time, then led Harriet into the house.

‘Would you like a cup of tea?’ she asked Harriet. Harriet seemed ill at ease, standing by the kitchen door. She seemed wary of meeting Mandy’s eye. ‘Where are the triplets?’ Mandy asked, trying to find a topic her friend would find easy. She didn’t know what Harriet wanted to talk about, but she was willing to listen.

Harriet smiled, her face relaxing at the mention of the triplets. ‘They’re at Mum and Dad’s,’ she said.

‘They’ll be knitting before they can walk,’ Mandy joked, thinking of Prudence Ruck and her wool, and was rewarded with a small smile.

‘I will have that tea,’ she said. Mandy motioned for her to sit down as she put the kettle on.

‘I heard you ran into a bit of trouble with Sam Western in the Fox and Goose yesterday,’ Harriet said, once Mandy had set a mug down in front of her.

Mandy flushed and grimaced. ‘You could say that.’

‘You remember I said I sometimes work in Walton?’

She’d said so outside the post office, the first day Mandy had met the triplets. Mandy nodded. ‘Well, it’s quite a fancy place I work,’ Harriet said. ‘Sam Western’s in there quite often.’

Mandy lifted her mug and took a sip of tea. She had no idea where Harriet was going with this, but she didn’t want to interrupt.

‘I was sorry to hear that you’d got into trouble with Sam,’ Harriet went on. She put her hands around her cup as if looking for comfort, then she lifted her gaze and looked Mandy in the eye. ‘I know I was angry before about the factory, but I know you. I know you’re only thinking of the animals. I should too.’

She pulled herself up straight and took a deep breath before going on. ‘So, I wanted you to know,’ she said, ‘that Sam Western sometimes brings members of the council to the restaurant.



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