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‘Wait!’ Oliver cried, but she ignored hiainst the tiny metal lock

Nothing happened

‘Yeah, I could have told you that wasn’t going to work,’ Oliver said, and Daisy felt the anger and frustration rising through her body at his words

‘That’s so incredibly helpful,’ she ground out, between her clenched teeth ‘And I suppose you have the answers to all our probleh so alone on Christ to spend Christ chateau?’ Jay wailed in the back seat at the rehtened painfully at the noise

Why was everything she planned always such a disaster?

‘I just wanted to say that there has to be a better way to get into that case,’ Oliver snapped back ‘And if you hadn’t locked my phone in there in the first place—’

‘Because of course this is allsuspicion it ht be

‘If you hadn’t locked the phones in there at least we’d have the sat nav and ouldn’t be lost in theFrance!’ Oliver finished

‘Language!’ Daisy yelled, as the twins began to cry again

‘Oh for God’s sake’ Bella clarabbed the vanity case ‘Let rip fro it round a few times until the lid popped open

Daisy and Oliver stared

‘Do I want to knohere you learned how to do that?’ Daisy asked, pretty sure she didn’t

Bella shrugged ‘YouTube’

‘Right’

Grabbing her phone fro Jay his tablet, Bella clae’

Daisy’s heart jumped Had someone found hi? ‘And?’

‘Hang on …’ Bella’s fingers swiped across the screen as she accessed the irl – Jessica, at nun of Claude yet’ Daisy’s heart sank back down to its usual position ‘Oh, this is good – she’s shared the page with all her friends, and they’re sharing it too Someone will spot hiainst her side in response

‘I hope so,’ Daisy murmured Poor Claude

Bella wrapped one arm around Jay, and kept the other on her phone ‘Hey, want me to check if there’s anywhere to eat around here? I’’

‘That would be … re to eat

Oliver,in the passenger seat With a sigh, Daisy picked hers up too Three missed calls – all from Mum, earlier in the day, before she’d phoned her froht knohere Claude was

She was going to have to call Mrs Templeton, that n worked, it was irresponsible not to use every possible avenue to get Claude somewhere safe Butto eat Claude would understand that, Daisy was sure The dog did always think with his stomach, after all

‘Okay, it looks like we’re about ten miles off thethe map on his phone

‘There’s a McDonald’s about a ht have restaurants a bit further along,’ Bella added

Jay, meanwhile, had started up the lullaby app on his tablet, which had finally persuaded the twins to stop screa

Daisy tried to ignore how much easier her life had just becoy, and focused on the is