“I’m at Rhona Mitra’s – I need you to help track her down here,” the woman replied before snapping “Dammit, watch the drink!” to a passerby. “A couple of people are causing a scene and it might make it rough to find her…”
“Hang on, coming over. Save me some canapes,” Kristen said, looking for the turnoff she’d need to take. She figured Beverley could hang on chez Sursok for a little longer…
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“Just a little longer…” Rosie said to herself, racing towards the bathroom. Seriously, she loved Roni but she wished the toilets weren’t so far apart.
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“We’re here,” Hannah announced once she’d ushered the group into what looked like a meeting room. Long table, shelves of books, paintings… meeting room, had to be.
“Are there any colouring books here? For Rosie, I mean,” Megan laughed.
“She doesn’t usually come in here for reading,” Hannah said with a wink, walking over to the shelving on the west wall. “Anyway, what you’re looking for is behind here.”
“Who’s ready to push a big stack of… oh,” Shay said, as Hannah got to the edge of the shelf, slipped the fingers of a hand behind it and shoved. The shelf swung towards the gang, revealing some more of the room’s fairly hideous wallpaper. And a door with a dial in the middle that made Emma’s heart jump with delight – she loved safes with rotary dials when she hadn’t brought any autodials with her, as it made her job much easier.
“This is the only safe on the grounds with that kind of lock,” Hannah explained as Emma trotted over to the wall and started to undress. “The others have more stuff in them, but you want to be out of here quick.”
“Do you HAVE to do that?” Olivia asked as Emma’s clothes hit the carpet.
“It’s not like we haven’t seen her naked before,” Hayden said.
“And the last time she tried to steal something when she was dressed, we all got put in prison,” Shay pointed out.
“Yeah, you don’t fuck with what works,” Emma agreed, resting her fingertips on the dial. “Now shush – and keep an eye out if anyone’s coming…”
“Kind of hope someone does,” Blake muttered. “We could try and take them hostage, try and use them to get us clear passage.”
“You know, that’s actually not a bad idea,” Roselyn said with a smile.
“I’d like to see you try it,” said a new voice from the doorway, stopping Emma’s turning of the dial.
“No… fucking… way…” Olivia whispered, turning along with the others to look at a grinning and freshly de-urine-ated Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, wagging a forefinger at the team.