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She’d been so damn sure about this trip that she’d ditched the man she trusted more than any other to make it. The flight was just a few hours, and it took little time to rent a car and drive to her father’s. The heat of the early evening sun joined her as she stood on the sidewalk, staring at the front door of her father’s home in the suburbs.
The house she was looking at now wasn’t the one she’d grown up in. Her brother had taken over the farm a couple of years ago, and while her father did still work in those fields, he’d moved out of what had been her childhood home in deference to her brother and his new family.
Coming here had seemed like such a good idea when she was sitting in the safety of the manor, and she’d gone on autopilot to make the journey. The moment sh
