Don’t Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Nicola Sanders
- Genre: Psychological Fiction, Psychological Thrillers
- Publish Date: 7 March 2023
- Size: 2 MB
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Three weeks earlier.
Oscar gives a lazy bark just as I hear a van drive onto the gravel. The bark
is only for show. We both know that he’d let an intruder walk right in, wag
his tail at the thief and put his paws on his chest. He’s an old caramel
Labrador who loves everybody and everything, even the neighbour’s cat.
I step away from the cot to the window. It’s the postman. He walks up the
steps to the front door and seconds later I hear the clank of the door flap.
There’s a letterbox at the gate, but when it’s just me in the house — which is
the case most days — I like to leave the gate wide open. It feels less lonely
that way, knowing anyone could drive right up to the house without having to
ring the intercom. Richard disagrees. He says it’s not safe, which invariably
makes me roll my eyes. This is a charming but rather sleepy village, and this
gorgeous country home is like a fortress. When we first moved in, Richard
was so concerned about Evie and me being isolated that he had locks
installed on every window.
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I look down at Evie asleep in her cot, her limbs out like a starfish, and I
pull the blanket over her and kiss her soft pink cheek. She doesn’t even stir. If
someone had told me even a year ago that the arrival of the post would be the
most exciting thing to happen to me all day, I would have laughed. But now,
as I walk quickly down the stairs, I feel a little thrill of anticipation that there
might be something for me among all the letters and bills addressed to
Richard. A magazine maybe? The latest issue of Homes & Gardens? Now
that’s another one I would have laughed at a year ago. Not anymore. I could
spend a good hour, maybe even two if I paced myself, in the rocking chair in
the nursery, flicking through on-trend bathrooms, country conservatories —
perhaps we should do that next, after the kitchen makeover. Except that I’ve
done nothing about the kitchen makeover. The pictures I cut out are still
there, their corners curling on the magnetic board I set up for the project in a
spare room I’ve claimed as my office.
Richard has his own study downstairs,
a large room with an oversized oak desk, shelves that take up the entire back
wall, and French doors that open onto a patio. He rarely uses his study. He
doesn’t like to bring work home.
My office is less grand, just a room with a desk and a filing cabinet where
I keep my private documents. I decorated it with pretty wallpaper and got
Simon, our gardener, to hang the large magnetic board on the wall since
Richard wouldn’t know which end of the hammer to hit a nail with.
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