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“Hey,” Nate said gently.

Daisy moved away and went to her husband.

“Are you okay?” he asked.

“Yeah,” she said, smiling.

“What happened?”

“He was yelling at me about Mum. It was the same kind of questions Aunt Cynthia was yelling at me on those days she locked me away. She was trying to find out where my Mum was living. I wouldn’t have known at the time she was living up in Scotland. Mum always met me on the mainland straight off the boat.”

“So you weren’t able to give her any information?”

Daisy shook her head. “I remember just crying for two days every time she came in the room. I never thought she was going to let me out.”

Nate wrapped her in his arms, and she buried her face in his jumper. He wasn’t wearing a coat in the icy wind but was still warm enough to keep her snug.

“I got to get back to work,” Nate called over her head to the girls.

“We’re not going anywhere,” Erica called out.

“You want to come with me or stay here?”

“I think I’ll stay here. They’ll have questions about you being my husband.”

Nate laughed. “All right. I’ll see you at home for dinner.”

“You will.”

Nate kissed her soundly, sweeping into her mouth for a tongue touch and then left her standing on the dockside dazed but for entirely different reasons.

“You married him,” Heidi stated.

“Yeah,” Daisy replied, watching him saunter down the quayside.

She watched his arse move until he was out of sight.

“Freya has gone to get coffee. We need details and, if possible, a picture of the dress,” Erica said.

“I can do that,” Daisy replied, hugging them both.

Chapter Twenty-Six

Daisy

Daisy brought Nate to Turner Hall kitchens to get breakfast. It was to fortify herself to meet with her brothers in Edward Hall kitchens. They now knew Warren had played her, that she was married, and that she was led to believe they no longer wanted to know her. The girls had reassured her that was not the case, but it didn’t stop her from having a sleepless night.

“Are you sure it’s all right to be here?” Nate said, looking up at Turner Hall ominously.

“Of course. Maggie and Bailey only saw you for a few minutes after the wedding, so it will be a relaxed way to get to know them.”

They ducked in through the door and shook off the snow from their coats on the threshold before removing them and hanging them up on the new rack Bailey had nailed to the wall. He mumbled and muttered about constant traffic and needed the kitchen to be tidy and nothave all their coats slung over the nearest piece of furniture. He’d even brought down special hangers to hook onto the fastenings so it didn’t ruin theline of the coat.

That got him an eye-roll. Daisy had laughed and reminded him that she and her brothers had worked where no one cared about the drape of a coat.

He replied he would teach them.

Daisy smiled at the conversation. Bailey always took care of them in any way he could.

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