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Right now it didn’t feel as if there was any chance at all The gap between thee it—let alone work out how to do it

‘Table decorations, seating plans, favours, flowers, outfits We’ve done it all, Vi There can’t be anything left to plan’ Daisy tucked the phone between her ear and her chin as she continued to browse on her laptop The wedding was feeling less and less real as it got nearer It was one day, that was all

And it felt increasingly irrelevant The real issue was how theto work, not whether Great-aunt Beryl was speaking to Great-uncle Stanley or what to feed the vegetarians during the hog roast

Seb was right Theto tell him that, of course

Less than a week to go This was it Was she prepared to spend the foreseeable part of her future with a er?

It wasn’t that the nights weren’t wonderful Incredible actually But was sex enough to base a e on?

But it wasn’t just sex, was it? There was the baby too The sex was a bonus and she needed to re more

Seb definitely found her desirable Had promised to respect her That was a hell of a lot es So she wasn’t sure where she fitted in his professional life or at Hawksley? They didn’t have to live in each other’s pockets after all

She was completely and utterly lucky—and that was before you factored in the fact she would be living in a castle and, improbable as it see it and stop clinging onto the shattered re out a place for herself at Hawksley, turn it into a home Into her home

If only she could help Seb work out how to ed it, even without an e the master bedroom

Her sister’s exasperated voice broke in on her thoughts ‘Daisy, Rose isn’t getting here until the day of the wedding itself so as the only bridesmaid on the same continent it’s down to me I’ve hinted, Muht Hen night What are you wanting?’

Daisy straightened, the phone nearly falling out of her hand as she registered her sister’s words ‘I forgot all about the hen night’

‘Sure you did’ Vi sounded sceptical ‘I’ve seen your scrapbooks, Daise, reh twenty-four years of your birthday treats You’ve left it too late for the Barcelona weekend or the spa in Ischia So spa day near here? Night out clubbing in London? We couldit awfully fine though We should have gone yesterday’

Daisy , honestly, Vi I’’