."In case I needed to find you again. Luke supposed he could hardly blame her. He would have done the same thing in her shoes. "Where's Jack?" Staying...with Edna," she said. "I know I shouldn't have left him, but I thought it was more important right now to be here, with you. You sounded so weird last night on the phone..."With a sigh, Sarah relaxed and rushed toward him, hugging him as if she'd never been happier to see anyone. Luke felt himself return the gesture, despite these newfound. "The first day we got there late so we just went to our rooms and cleaned up and went to dinner. Afterwards mother and I returned to the suite and watched television and then to bed while dad went to the casino to try his luck. I found out the next morning that he had won a bundle at the baccarat table. He was waving around what looked like bundles of money and he gave a pile to my mother and a pile to me and told us to buy ourselves something nice. Then he said he would meet us for breakfast. It clearly took hima moment to realize who I was - once he realized I was walking to histable, he suddenly broke into a huge grin, stood and pulled the secondchair out from the table for me. I paused for moment, then decided tojust go with it. As I sat, I smoothed my skirt underneath me as I hadremembered my girlfriends doing, and he pushed the chair back under me."Alexis, what can I say? You may take a while to get ready, but once youare... wow!" He grinned, as he sat back down on his side. This was the first time she had had access to the manor as the last time a party had been held, she had been poorly with the flu. ‘Remember Clarabelle Tavistock?’ A sudden vision of a stuck-up blonde girl with skinny legs sprang into Rosie’s mind. ‘You mean their daughter who went to Oxford three years ago?’ ‘Yeah, that’s her.’ Marc opened another door at the top of the staircase to reveal a large attic room in what appeared to be one of the turrets of the house. ‘Clarabelle and I had a thing.