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Suddenly, the bedrooone viral!’

‘What?!’ Viral sounded bad Daisy’s brain immediately leapt to Mrs Templeton’s co Her exhausted brain finally caught up Viral was good Viralfor Claude She covered the end of her phone with her hand ‘What’s happening?’

‘I assure you, nored him

‘The Find Claude ca onto the bottom of the four poster bed with excitement ‘I mean everywhere! There’s even a piece about hianising search parties …’

‘That’s incredible!’ Bella’s excite back at her daughter and forgetting all about the phone in her hand At least, until Henri started talking again

‘Now, about your future travel home—’

‘I don’t know,’ Daisy said, cutting him off with a sudden confidence she hadn’t felt in years ‘I don’t knoe’re going to get hoet hoether as a family’

‘And will you be doing this via our company?’ Henri asked, apparently unaffected by the warrior spirit that had filled Daisy, as she sat bolt upright in bed

‘No, Henri It will not be with your poxy ferry company There are other ferries Other ports Hell, we could even take the Channel Tunnel if anted—’ She broke off, staring at Bella, and then at Oliver, who had just about le into a seated position

‘We can take the tunnel,’ she repeated, in a whisper Bella’s eyes widened, and she nodded furiously

‘Mrs McCawley?’ Henri said ‘If I could just take aanother moment on an i

s were family too

She was going home

‘The Channel Tunnel?’ Oliver asked, his voice heavy with sleep ‘Is it open today? The car shuttle service, I mean?’

Sometimes, you didn’t need to plan ahead Sometimes, you didn’t need to be superskills

Sometimes, you just had to follow your intuition, wherever it led you

Daisy grinned ‘Let’s drive to Calais and find out’

The icicles were still , Jack realised, as he approached Holly’s front door It made the house feel bare, like every other house on the street As if all of Holly’s personality had been stripped from the place

Heto put theed

Glancing back over his shoulder as he waited for Holly to answer his knock, Jack spotted a piece of paper fluttering against the lamppost With a frown, he moved closer to check it out

FIND CLAUDE! The headline shouted Underneath was a photo of a very fa a Santa between his bat-like ears Apparently they weren’t the only ones searching for hie link at the bottom of the poster He’d have to check that out

But then the door opened behind him, and he turned back to find Holly in the open doorway

‘You’re here!’ Holly cried, her eyes bright and her cheeks flushed Was she baking again? Or drinking mulled ithout him? ‘You won’t believe e’ve found!’

She dashed back through the hallway, leaving Jack on the doorstep

‘We?’ he wondered, aloud, as he followed her inside, pulling the door shut behind him ‘Who is we?’

He got his answer as he stepped into the kitchen Mrs Templeton sat at the head of the table, and Jack blinked at the strange sight Was this another Christht intervention? Except Holly had seemed excited, not upset