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Texts between Ian and Savannah
sixth week
You still aren’t cooking in the kitchen downstairs.
It can’t be convenient to carry a fully prepared meal from one house to the other three times a day.
It will be less convenient to haul the raw ingredients back and forth.
Martin will arrange to have the kitchen in the main house fully stocked by lunchtime tomorrow.
I don’t mind cooking in the smaller kitchen in the guest house and the walk isn’t bad.
I do mind that my food isn’t as fresh as it could be.
Furthermore, I am unaccustomed to having my direct orders disobeyed.
I expect all meals to be prepared in the kitchen of the main house from this point on.
Ian has silenced notifications.
Chapter Three
Savannah
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“Unaccustomed?” I mutter under my breath as I drag myself down the path from my cottage to the main house at six o’clock the following morning. “Who the fuck uses the word ‘unaccustomed’ in a text message? Rich wanker.”
It’s not that I haven’t been getting up at six every morning for the past six weeks to make his smoothies. I have.
Five forty-five almost—almost—feels like a humane time to drag my ass out of bed at this point.
But it’s different when I get to stay in my cottage. I get up early. I stumble around for a half hour, bleary-eyed, while I make coffee and stare into the abyss of the freezer while waiting for inspiration to hit. Most mornings, by the time I’m hitting pulse on the blender, I’m practically alert.
A quick hike down the path to Mr. Donovan’s house to drop off the smoothie in the fridge and I’m legit ready to start my day.
But this?
This feels different.
Probably because he’s ordering me to do it.
Definitely.
The past six weeks have been … weird.
For the first time in my adult life, I’ve been getting enough sleep.
I’ve been exercising. I’ve been reading for hours every day. Thanks to the cottage’s huge TV and indulgent streaming subscriptions, I’ve watched more TV than at any other time in my life. I’ve caught up on the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe and practically every notable TV show of the past decade. Game of Thrones. Black Mirror. Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Witcher. Law and Order.
Do you have any idea how much TV you have to watch to catch up on Law and Order?
A lot.
You have to watch a troubling amount of TV to catch up on Law and Order.
Honestly, I have too much free time on my hands.
