“I—” she started.
I spoke quickly. “Since no one will be around to exercise them, the horses need to be sold. Unless you or Erin ride.”
The hardest would be the townhouse. I loved that house. Even before Dair and I made memories in it.
But the horses would be hard too.
Because the estate had always had them.
More, because Dair and I had ridden them.
Not to mention, they were beautiful. Mum had excellent taste in horseflesh.
Then again, from what I could remember, that was a Coddington trait.
“You shouldn’t make important decisions when your heart is hurting,” Christine advised. Her voice lowered. “You need to trust me on that, luv.”
“I need to have all of this done and be away from here.”
Christine nodded. “Yes, I reckon you do. But give it some time, some distance, before you do something you can’t undo.”
This was smart advice.
I was a mess. So numb, it was beginning to frighten me.
I knew I didn’t have my head on straight.
I needed to take a breath and give it some time.
Sure, I’d been falling in love with Alasdair Wallace.
No.
The truth: I already knew I was in love with him. I just worried it was too soon, and this was why I almost told him I was when we were at King’s Cross, but I didn’t.
Boy, was I glad I didn’t now.
And okay, he’d said he was doing the same with me.
But I told no lies to Christine moments ago.
This ending shouldn’t be that sad, because we’d hardly even begun.
It felt that way.
It felt like everything.
It felt like forever.
It just wasn’t.
“Sarah is having the things we boxed up at the London house sent out here so it can all be in one place. Alex has asked me to set all the jewelry aside, and some other things, for her to have a look at when she has the time to come back out. We can put them in storage until she does. She might not want anything, but she’s starting a family, and her children might. Or at least they could sell it and put themselves through college with it or something.”
“Yes,” Christine agreed.
“I’ll find an auction house for the stuff we know is going. I’m making some calls this afternoon.”
Christine nodded.
