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‘ARE you sure?’

‘I’m sorry, Dr Barrett. This is a witnessed signature and all perfectly legal. The reason I wasn’t aware of the sub-lease was because I was overseas at the time it was arranged and my junior partner dealt with it. Unfortunately, the filing of the document was incorrect.’

‘So I’m stuck with it.’

‘Only for another three weeks or thereabouts.’ The solicitor raised an eyebrow. ‘You didn’t seem concerned about waiting for the lease to expire when you purchased the property.’

‘That’s because I had no idea who was really living in that cottage.’

‘And the tenant is a problem?’

‘Yes.’ The word was heartfelt.

‘In that case…’ The solicitor smiled, pulling a blank piece of paper in front of him. ‘What is she doing that’s unacceptable?’

Andrew frowned. She was just…there; wasn’t that enough? It was more than enough for him to find it disturbing. Especially when his daughter seemed convinced that Alice Palmer had magic powers of some kind. It was all she could talk about last night and she’d been almost breathless with excitement and talking so fast at times it had been hard to hear everything.

Apparently she had watched her gallop up a big hill with her hair streaming out behind.