Page 117 of Ghost Note

There are no conditions attached to this. It’s not in exchange for your love or a temporary gift you can only hold onto if you agree to keep me in your life. These properties are yours now, no matter what happens tomorrow. Quite honestly, you could run me over with your blue Scirocco tomorrow, and I’d still never regret doing this for you.

There are not many guarantees I can offer you in life, but I can offer to make your dream a safe one. One that will last you a lifetime…. if you want it to.

All I ask is that you take it. Take the house. Take the shop.Don’t say it’s too much. Don’t say you don’t deserve it because you, Daisy Piper, deserve the world.

Even if I’m not in it.

The last week has been the best of my life, and it’s all been thanks to you. Having your forgiveness is a gift you can and will never understand the value of. So, thank you.

And I love you.

I really fucking love you, Zee.

If ever you decide that you want a different adventure, you know all you have to do is call. I’ll fly you across the world in a heartbeat, no matter the time, the day, the month, or the year.

You’ll always be my Daisy girl.

And I’ll always be your superstar for the taking.

See you around, Zee. Be happy.

You know I live to see that smile staring back at me again soon.

Danny x

The lump in my throat was painful to swallow, and I looked up at Gina with tears in my eyes.

“Is he crazy?”

“Only about you.”

“I can’t take this. I can’t take a shop… and a house…”

“Two houses, actually.” Gina turned to me, her eyes narrowed as she rested her hands on her tummy, as casual as casual could be. “He’d already written the note when he made the decision at my house.”

“What decision?”

“He was broken, talking in riddles, but I figure it out in the end. Danny wants Florence’s house to be in your name, too. He said you’d been right—that it deserved to be loved and looked after by someone who knew the family history and how much Florence loved her garden and every plant or tree in it. It deserved to belong to someone who loves Hope Cove as much as she did.”

“Are you kidding me?” I cried, my eyes widening. I glanced down at the letter in my hand, and I shook it violently. “Thisis bad enough, but he wants to give me his grandma’s property, too?”

Gina frowned. “How is it bad?”

“I don’t know, but it is.”

She huffed out a laugh and shook her head. “I think it’s sweet.”

“Sweet? Gina, not two days ago, you hated the guy.”

“I didn’t hate him. I was disappointed in him. Disappointment is usually there because two people haven’t communicated properly, and when Danny explained everything to me, I decided to forgive him. It makes my heart feel lighter, and it makes him feel less shitty.”

“Forgiving him is fine, but you don’t have to become his personal cheerleader.”

“What if I want to? What if I agree with him and what he says about this making all your dreams that bit more secure? He doesn’t need these things, Dais, they’re in the way. He wouldn’t give them to you if he didn’t want to—if he wasn’t desperate to.”

I swallowed again and closed my eyes, dropping my chin to my chest and taking a breath. “I don’t like the way they feel.”

“How do they feel?”

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