"You must run the guest house, Thea?"
"Correct." She folded her arms. It was a real tumbleweed moment.
"I'm actually staying in the next town over," Jacob continued, as if Thea wasn't being hostile. "And I'm here for at least a week, so it would be great if I could repair the damage I seemed to have caused."
'Pffffft. It'll take a lot longer than that,' Maddie grumbled.
"I think you should go, too," Jessica put in. Clearly, she thought there was strength in numbers and needed to take the same side as her sister. "We can run the shop for half an hour. And Freya really does worry about the press."
I turned towards Thea. "It's actually not the worst idea ever," she said quietly. "It'll give me a chance to talk to the girls about a couple of things."
I nodded at her and went to
