The stethoscope.
The sock laid out in front of the couch.
“What am I supposed to do with… all this?”
“You could return it to him,” Keira suggests softly.
“Or keep it,” Jane says.
“Or let the sheep handle it,” Emma adds. “Honestly, at this point they seem more organized than we are.”
“He’s going to need his equipment,” I murmur.
“You can still change your mind,” Emma whispers.
I shake my head.
“I can’t stay and watch the man I love avoid me every single day.”
I know they want me to stay.
But my family—and apparently the sheep too—don’t understand one thing:
You can’t force someone to love you.
CHAPTER 29
FINN
The Intervention
(Or How Nate Kidnapped a Grumpy Doctor)
My medical equipment has reappeared.
I stare at the coffee table in the cottage sitting room in complete disbelief.
The green sock I didn’t even realize I’d lost.
The stethoscope I’d been missing yesterday.
The entire medical bag, neatly organized.
Everything is there, exactly as though nothing had ever disappeared.
I searched for this stuff last night before heading to the pub to drown myself in whisky and self-loathing.
It wasn’t here.
And now it’s back.
Like magic.
Except it isn’t magic.
It’s Mary.
She came to return my things.
