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CHAPTER ONE
NO
This couldn’t be happening
The box had to be there
It had to be
But the luggage carousel was e round, now the last case had been taken off it And Claire was the only one standing there, waiting with a small suitcase and a dress box—and a heart full of panic
Where was her best friend’s wedding dress?
‘Get a grip, Claire Stewart Standing gawping at the carousel isn’t going to ically appear Go and talk to soathered up her case and the box containing the bridesht be able to find out where the wedding dress was Maybe the box had accidentally been put in the wrong flight’s luggage and it was sitting so to be claimed
Half an hour of lish and holidayot her the bad news Somewhere between London and Naples, the dress had vanished
The dress Claire had spent hours working on, hand-stitching the tiny pearls on the bodice and the edge of the veil
The dress Claire’s best friend was supposed to be wearing at her wedding in Capri in two days’ time
Maybe this was a nightmare and she’d wake up from it in a second Surreptitiously, Claire pinched herself It hurt Not good, because thatShe was in Naples with her luggage, her own brides dress
There was nothing else for it She grabbed her mobile phone, found a quiet corner in the airport and called Ashleigh
Whose phone itched through to voicemail
This definitely wasn’t the kind of news Claire could leave on voice Luke, Ashleigh’s fiancé, but his phone was also switched through to voicelanced at her watch It was still so early that they were probably in the middle of breakfast and they’d probably left their phones in their room OK Who else could she call? She didn’t have a number for Tom, Luke’s bestthe wedding, wasn’t flying to Italy until tomorrow, after she’d finished a photo-shoot in New York The rest of the wedding guests were due to arrive on the
Which left Ashleigh’s brother The h away Thestrictly by the rules—and Claire had just broken the time He was the last person she could call
But he wasn’t in Capri yet, either Which meant she had time to fix this