Chapter 45
The day has arrived
Brodie had to concentrate harder than usual at work to stop his mind from drifting off to the night before when he and Lettie made love and then how good it felt to be eating breakfast with her at Hollyhock Farm.
He waved his final patient from the room and leant against his desk, trying to picture his future with Lettie. If their relationship continued to get more serious and Lettie continued running the farm, would she want to stay there or might she agree to move into his cottage with him? He liked the idea, very much. The cottage was closer to the beach as well as being conveniently placed next to his surgery. He decided to agree to whatever it took for them to be together. Supporting Lettie’s new career was something he was determined to do.
Brodie decided that he would take each step as he reached it. He wanted this relationship with Lettie to work. He had once asked his father how he knew his mother was the woman for him and couldn’t understand it when his father told him that he knew as soon as he saw her. Brodie realised that it had been the same for him. He might not have known how important Lettie would be to him when they had met that night at the school disco all those years before, but he had definitely noticed her, even if he had been too embarrassed to do anything about it. This time round though, he had known instantly that she was special. He hadn’t known quite how special she would be to his future. He knew now though.
The memory of her face as she stood by the kitchen door earlier that morning and the look of disappointment that he was already up made him smile. He wished he hadn’t tried to impress her with his cooking. Who knew what might have happened between them if he had stayed in bed and waited for her to return. Then again, he mused, how presumptuous would that have seemed for her to come back to the house and find him lying in her bed as if he had every right to be there.
He looked at his watch and wondered if her parents had arrived home yet and if so, what Mr Torel’s decision might be about the farm. He could still insist on selling the land if he didn’t trust Lettie to make it work. Brodie hoped Gareth Torel would give her the opportunity to keep running Hollyhock Farm. She had clearly relished her time there and Brodie hoped her father was open to letting her at least try to run the place and prove herself for longer than the two months he had given her so far.
Wanting to show her he was thinking of her, Brodie took his phone from his jeans pocket and sent her a text.
Good luck this evening. I’ll be thinking of you. Let me know how it goes with your dad.X
He waited for her to reply but after a few minutes decided to go back to his cottage and wash the dishes that he had left in the sink from the previous evening. Was it only last night that Lettie had come to his cottage for supper? So much had happened since then that it seemed much longer ago.
He recalled Maddie interrupting them and thought he should give her a call. She might be very annoying at times, but she did have his best interests at heart and was trying to help him make the cottage more of a home. It wasn’t his sister’s fault that she had lousy timing, he decided with a smile.