Chapter Seventeen
Four months later
Mia hit save on the Excel spreadsheet and closed it down with a large sense of satisfaction. She’d just completed the first quarter’s preliminary accounts on the coppicing business, and things were going great. Marsden had been telling the truth—it was a profitable business, and he’d also been absolutely right about it improving further under younger leadership. On her own, she was perfectly capable, but with her men around—Thomas with his practical knowledge, Elias and Arjun with their business skills, and Alex with his unwavering support and cheerleading—she was unstoppable.
It worked both ways, though. Elias had snapped up the cider farm—almost losing out to another buyer until he’d upped his bid—and had taken to running it like a duck to water. He
