Chapter 47

He had stepped over a line with her the last few days; now it was time to get their relationship back on track. “I have some papers I need to go through before we look around the castle tomorrow, so feel free to look around. You can get something ready to eat too if you’d like,” he drawled as he opened the door and placed the bags out in the hallway. “I take it you can cook?”

“Of course I can cook.”

“Of course you can,” Nicholas parroted wryly; he should have known this capable PA could do anything she set her mind to.

Caroline frowned. “But I thought the housekeeper opened the gates for us?”

“From the gate house.” Nicholas nodded, dark eyes mocking as he saw Caroline’s puzzlement. “Mrs McTaggart doesn’t live in, Care.” He shrugged. “I told her we would be fine here on our own, so she made us coffee as a welcome, and she’ll have left some supplies in the fridge for the makings of dinner this evening and breakfast in the morning.”

Caroline thought she wo