Rachel Dove - The Wedding Shop on Wexley Street

He recognised her then. She had done it before, on the beach. He had been walking along, minding his own business, when she had appeared, grasped his hand, said hello and then disappeared. He had seen her loitering around the place, eating dinner near to him, sitting nearby at the pool.

The woman ignored him, gripping him in one hand and her case in the other as they headed to a driver holding a placard saying ‘MR WHITE’. The bracelet she wore on her wrist jangled, annoying him.

‘Here, honey,’ she said, pointing at Darcy. The driver nodded and took both their cases, walking off towards the exit. ‘This is us, let’s go. We need to avoid them.’

She pointed a pink-painted talon back towards the arrivals area, and Darcy shuddered.

‘Okay, okay, but I’m not Mr White. I’m—’

‘I know who you are, Mr Burgess. I’m under orders to take you straight to the office.’

Darcy’s heart sank into his designer shoes.

‘Oh God, did my bloody father send you?’ He clenched his fists in impotent anger. ‘Argh! Will he never leave me be!’ he demanded, shouting up at the white ceiling of the airport. The woman just ignored him and motioned for him to keep walking. He followed behind her, feeling like a man on his way to a firing squad. Then he remembered. The name on the placard. Mr White. Oh God.

‘The driver, that sign? Was it really for me?’ She nodded, raising a brow as if to say ‘ of course, dum-dum ’.

The colour drained from his face. She bloody loved Reservoir Dogs , and one too many Godfather binges had sent the old dragon over the edge.

‘Bloody hell,’ he exclaimed in his plummy Hugh Grant tones. ‘I’m done for, aren’t I?’

They had arrived at the waiting car now, and the driver opened the door. He looked inside, half-expecting the gates of Hades to be inside, not the plush leather interior he saw.

‘Yep,’ she said, bundling him into the back. ‘Your mother sent me.’

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