Chapter Forty

" Aidan just called me." Bryan said to Aine when he walked into the kitchen. She was cooking dinner, trying to absolve some kind of normalcy. She was even thinking about talking to him about resuming work at the shop. Her cousin Cephas had been a sweetheart, taking her position full time, singlehandedly running her business, while she stayed home. But she could only surrender her responsibilities for so long. She needed her work, she needed her freedom.

" Aidan is the man helping out at the stable, right?" he asked, turning to him, and felt her heart fall into her stomach when she saw the worry lines over his forehead,

" yes, " he said, "Aidan is the one handling my stables." she dropped the vegetables she was cutting and went to him,

"What's wrong? What did he say?" she asked wrapping her arms around his middle. He sighed and bent to place a kiss om her forehead,