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Sergio struggled to think ‘I don’t know I honestly don’t know’

‘Everything was good yesterday Maybe Mr Jere when she took him up the towels’

‘What? When was that?’

‘Just before I go He went upstairs to shower and I worry he h towels I ask Bella to take him some more’

‘You sent her up to Jere as he tried to picture what ht have happened

‘Sì Are you deaf noell as stupid?’

Sergio jumped up from his chair ‘That’s it That has to be it!’ Excited and appalled at the same time, he raced upstairs and burst into Jere

‘Wake up, Jeremy! Wake up!’

Jereasp ‘What the? What’s going on?’

‘Go into the bathroo to me’

‘Huh?’

‘Just do it!’

Jereered, naked, into the bathrooroaned when he heard his friend’s deep voice as clear as a bell Without taking the tirabbed a fresh shirt and his phone, then bolted for the garage He was on the road to Milan within five minutes, his heart in his mouth but hope in his heart

Bella was sitting in a quiet area of the first-class lounge, staring blankly through the large plate-glassat the cos of the airport, when a pair of black trousers roaned silently at the thought so to try to pick her up It had happened before when she’d been waiting for a flight in first-class lounges

‘May I join you?’ a very familiar voice asked

Shock had Bella’s head jerking round and up, the silky hair of her red inging around her ears