Three Weddings and a Scandal by Wendy Holden

Author:Wendy Holden [Holden, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784977535
Publisher: Head of Zeus Ltd.

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On Monday morning, Laura returned happily to central London. The weekend had gone well. She and Caspar had had a ball – quite literally – and, on the professional front, she had lots of material from the Bender wedding. Plus the mystical boho marriage was also in the bag. Carinthia was going to be thrilled.

It was just past eight when she emerged from Oxford Circus Tube. Lots of time to write up her notes, as well as investigate the possibilities in the fashion cupboard. Besides serving as her temporary home, it was about to play another role in her life. An actual clothes-related one.

She needed something to wear. At the moment, her look was jeans and a T-shirt borrowed from Caspar’s floor. In other circumstances they might have passed as the ‘boyfriend’ look, but it wouldn’t be the sort of boyfriend anyone at Society was interested in.

With any luck there would be something low-key – some smarter jeans, a plain T-shirt – that she could borrow until she could get up to Lulu’s and get her own clothes back. And return the Olympia Jagerbomb wedding ensemble currently folded inside a Lidl carrier from Caspar’s kitchen.

As expected, no one was in the Society office. Laura headed straight for the fashion cupboard. Leaving the light off so as not to draw attention to her presence, she examined the clothes on the racks as best she could in the gloom. Good; here was a plain white shirt and dark jeans, both of which closely resembled the ones Lulu had given her. In the unlikely event that Raisy and Daisy noticed anything, they would think them the same ones.

Laura peeled off Caspar’s musty clothes. As he had been unable to provide underwear, and she would have anyway thought twice about accepting any he might offer, she stood naked on the carpet. She inspected her long, pale body in the mirror; there were scratches and bitemarks all over, especially around her breasts, she noted ruefully. No one could describe Caspar’s lovemaking as gentle. On the other hand, she had given as good as she’d got…

She smiled, then froze. She could hear footsteps outside. Her mind went blank and panic thundered round her body. Was she about to be discovered naked in the fashion cupboard? It would look weird at the very least; at worst it might mean serious trouble.

She crouched down on the carpet, behind a wall of boxes. Just in time. The light in the cupboard was suddenly switched on and a piercing brightness flooded the room. She suppressed a sudden, crazy urge to scream. Whoever it was seemed to be looking for something. The hangers were rattling on the racks. They jangled in Laura’s ears, mirroring her jittering nerves.

Who was it? From where she crouched, she could see the occasional flash of the top of a head as it came close and went away again. A red head. Clemency!

The knowledge that her worst enemy was so close made her situation all the more dangerous.

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