Her parents arrived early the next day, bubbling with excitement as she settled them into the cottage and almost being squeezed to death with overzealous hugs and kisses.

Her room was looking a lot barer since she had packed up a lot of personal things and moved them to the manor. Rob had encouraged her to start transitioning her things up there, to slowly get used to the idea the cottage was no longer her main home and that his was. It had felt weird at first, moving her things to his, putting some of her clothes hanging in the space he had cleared for her in his wardrobe. The...