![]() ![]() ![]() Motts’s kettle and blue-patterned mugs were unpacked first. ![]() We’ll want tea to get us through the evening.” They needed coffee, not tea. ![]() “Well? Where do you want to start?” Motts glanced between the twins and the stacks of her belongings. They were only two years younger than Motts. He’s still waiting on a growth spurt,” Vina teased her twin brother. Is it too late to learn how to be a grown-up?” “It’s never too late. Motts and Vina had realised over the years that their close bond felt more like that of siblings. Leena and Cadan had welcomed Motts with open arms even before she’d briefly dated their daughter. Griffin Brews had been around for thirty-plus years, and now their children managed it, allowing their parents to retire early. They’d settled in Polperro to run a coffee shop and bakery. She even made your favourite kind of rice.” The Griffin twins took after their Tamil mother, Leena, who’d been a Bollywood star before falling in love with Cadan Griffin, a Cornish-Indian cricket player. She wanted to let the sambar simmer a little longer. “I’m….” How do I finish the sentence? Panicked? In the middle of the biggest mistake I’ve ever made? Just slightly overcome by irrational fear? Nish moved forward to take Cactus from her arms while Vina led her inside. “For goodness sake.” “Motts? You okay?” She spun around and yanked the door open to find the welcome sight of her exgirlfriend, Pravina Griffin, and Vina’s twin brother, Nish. “Ahh!” She jumped when a rapid knocking on the door jolted her. ![]()
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