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Emily stared at Freya. So that was why she seemed familiar. She remembered those trips to London with her mum, just the two of them. And she recalled playing with a girl – a dark-haired, dark-eyed girl in the swing-park. She’d had such fun on those trips. Her two half-siblings had never been there; it had always been just the two of them, their special time together. Now she knew where she’d seen Freya before. She had been a young girl then, but she was just as strikingly beautiful today.
Emily wasn’t the only one staring at them. Clarissa and Joss looked their way.
Alice put her serviette on the table.
Freya still had her phone in her hand, forgetting she was on a call. Emily watched her pull up a chair to her table.
‘I don’t know how to tell you this, but I think Dad and a woman called Wendy, had an affair years ago and they had a daughter around my age. When Dad used to take me on trips with him to London, I think it was a ruse to meet Wendy and see her daughter –theirdaughter.’
Emily stared at them, her heart pounding in her chest.Was it true?
‘Is it true?’ asked Freya.
Alice stared at her. ‘You used to meet a woman called Wendy?’
‘Well, Dad did.’
Alice said, ‘Give me your phone!’
‘Why?’
‘I haven’t got mine and I want to speak to your father – right now!’
‘So, you think it’s true?’
Emily was still listening to all this, shocked at what she was hearing.
Tarek interrupted. ‘Freya, who called your phone?’
She held it up. ‘Oh, I don’t know.’ She put her phone to her ear again. ‘Hello?’
Emily ended the call and ran from the doorway.
Chapter 47
Emily came to an abrupt stop in the hallway and turned around when she heard her mum speaking to someone at the front door. ‘What are you doing here? I told you not to come!’
Emily saw two men – an older guy around her parents’ age and a young man – barge into the hallway. ‘Where are they?’
‘They’re having breakfast. Look, Alice doesn’t know yet that Freya is here. Go now before she sees you here.’
‘But Freya …’
‘I’ll deal with that, Jeffrey.’
‘How?’
‘I don’t know. I swear no one is going to find out. If you go. Now!’
‘Find out what?’
Everyone turned around and looked at Emily.
‘Emily, sweetheart, these people called in on the off-chance there was a room vacant.’
Emily folded her arms and frowned at her mum for telling her an outright lie. She ignored her and turned to the older man. ‘Are you Alice’s husband?’
Before he answered her question, his mobile phone rang. Emily watched him answer his mobile. ‘Alice?’
