I head for the kitchen to make a flask of hot chocolate to take up to the cottage as usual, but the moment I step inside I can see that something is very wrong. Mum and Paddy are sitting at the big pine table, their faces grim. ‘Everything OK?’ I ask. ‘Things going to plan with the order?’ ‘Factory’s running like clockwork,’ Paddy says. ‘Thank goodness. We should have everything shipped off by the end of next week, but I’ve had to let the workers go early today, obviously …’ ‘I’ve been a fool,’ Mum states flatly. ‘I’ve been kidding myself – so wrapped up in the business that I didn’t notice what was going on right under my nose!’ ‘What was going on?’ I ask warily. Is this to do with the newspaper article? Have the police been round asking questions? Have Mum and Paddy worked out that I am not seeing my friends every afternoon, but wandering around the moors in the dark with a boy I barely know and a couple of stolen ponies?
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