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‘I know you think you know what you’re doing, but you’re not going to come out on top of this.’ Holly’s voice trembled.

‘I don’t know, I was on top last night, and the night before. Or is that not what you mean?’ Sienna smirked. ‘You really are an im?—’

‘Oh my God, I love these days. It makes me want to have another baby.’

Holly turned around to see Caroline standing there, with one of Holly’s naming-day biscuits in her hand.

Holly turned back to look at Sienna. Her blood was boiling. Had Sienna really just made that comment? And again, with no one there to hear. And now Holly couldn’t even respond. Not with Caroline there. Sienna would just return to being as nice as pie and Holly would look crazy if she said or did anything.

‘So, what are you talking about?’ Caroline said. ‘Wedding stuff? It must be so exciting. It feels like decades since ours. Actually, it was decades.’

Sienna offered a trite little titter that anybody in their right mind could tell was fake, but Caroline smiled.

‘So, how’s it all going? There must be loads to sort out.’

‘You have no idea.’ Sienna rolled her eyes. ‘I know it’s just one day, and it’s not what matters, is it? Even if everything goes wrong, it’ll still be a perfect day because I’m marrying the perfect man.’

‘Oh my God, you are so sweet,’ Caroline cooed. ‘Aren’t they so sweet, Holly?’

‘Sickeningly so,’ Holly replied.

Sienna shot her a glower before she continued. ‘There’s just so much to sort out. I’m trying to get the same photographer that Meghan and Harry had. I absolutely adored the photographs. And then there’s the flowers. I think a wedding can be ruined by bad flowers, don’t you? They’re basically the cornerstone of all the photos. It’s not just the professional photos you have to think of, after all. It’s all the guests who post them online. Good flowers can make such a difference to how the images look.’

‘What happened to “everything is perfect as long as you’re marrying the perfect man”?’ Holly muttered under her breath, yet once again, Sienna ignored her comment.

‘There’s a florist I follow online,’ she said. ‘Everything he does is phenomenal. It would be my absolute dream to have him do the wedding. He’s got an exhibition in Anglesey, just for two days starting tomorrow and I’m desperate to go, but I’ve got an event at work I just can’t get out of. It’s such a shame. I’m heartbroken, if I’m honest. I mean, I adore the photos he posts, but you never know how edited they are, do you? I really need to see what they’re like in real life. But Anglesey? It’s a four-hour drive. It would take a whole day just to go there and back.’

‘And you can’t get someone to cover for you?’ Caroline asked.

‘Mine isn’t the type of job where you can just get someone to cover you,’ Sienna said. Everything about her was so damn patronising, Holly wanted to hit her. She didn’t know how she was managing not to.

‘That’s such a shame,’ Caroline said, seemingly oblivious to the complete condescending manner in which she’d been spoken to. ‘Why don’t you see if there’s someone who can go up for you? Take photos? That way, you’d know if they were edited or not.’

‘It’s a great idea, but I’d have to find someone I could really trust.’

‘Well, I’m working at the sweet shop, but Holly is off. And I’m sure Giles is free. The pair of them could go up together, couldn’t they? There couldn’t be two people you trust more to take some photos, could there?’

Holly watched as a smile tightened on Sienna’s lips.

‘Well, I’m not sure it will be that simple. Photos are tricky to get right. The light and composition…’

‘But if you really want to know what they would look like unedited, like the guests would take at the wedding, then it would be better to have normal people go, wouldn’t it? Isn’t that what you just said?’

‘I understand what you’re saying, only… only?—’

Sienna was clearly trying to figure out a way out of the situation, and Holly desperately wanted to see what excuse she came up with, but Caroline was already waving her hand.

‘Giles! Giles, you haven’t got anything sorted for tomorrow, have you?’

Slowly he ambled over towards them.

‘Is everything okay?’ Giles asked. Holly wished her stomach would stop the strange fluttering churning it had begun, but she also wished Giles would at least look in her direction and stop pretending she didn’t exist. Although that was what she had been trying to do all day too.

‘Sienna wants someone to go and take some photos of these flowers she likes tomorrow,’ Caroline said. ‘Are you free?’

‘I can be.’

Sienna shifted a little. ‘It’s really not that important.’