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fight his enthusiasm for the past. And Olivia had used all her acting skills to persuade him of how desperate she was
to see the artefacts under less stressful circumstances . . .
    Which isn’t actually a lie
, Olivia reassured herself now. After all, she really did want to take her time with the artefacts – soon. Today, she had a slightly more important
goal!
    Officially, they were on their way to get a special tour from Charles . . . but
un
officially, Olivia and Ivy were on a secret mission to put the fake pashmina in place. Olivia knew Ivy
was planning to practise her investigative journalism skills this afternoon, by snooping around for any trail the thief might have left for them to follow.
    Speeding up, Olivia overtook Ivy and Reiko to turn the final corner on the way to the museum . . .
    . . . and came to a dead halt as she saw the couple coming straight towards them.
    ‘Alex! Tessa!’ Olivia squeaked. ‘How . . .
nice
to see you again.’
    Behind her, Ivy let out a muffled groan. Even Reiko lost her athletic balance for once as she hid herself behind Olivia.
    ‘Prince!’ she mumbled, clutching at Olivia’s arms, her voice sounding strangled with panic. ‘Prince . . . Princess . . .
Ack!
’
    Alex frowned, setting one hand on his wife’s back, as Ivy caught Olivia just in time. ‘Are you girls OK?’
    ‘Yes!’ Olivia said, disentangling herself from Reiko. ‘We’re great. Totally great. And you two look . . . great!’
Great?
She squeezed her eyes shut for a
moment, wincing.
Could I sound any
less
convincing?
    Every inch of her was aware of the decoy pashmina in Ivy’s bag. It was as if it was shooting out radio signals into the air that screamed: ‘
Fake! They’re trying to pass off
a fake!
’
    Taking a long, deep breath, she opened her eyes again . . . and frowned.
Wait a minute.
    Alex and Tessa did
not
look great at all. In fact, they looked a little . . .
    Spooked
, she realised.
Uh-oh.
She tried not to glance in the direction of Ivy’s bag. She could almost hear the fake pashmina shouting into the air:
    ‘
Don’t trust these girls! I’m not your real pashmina!
’
    No.
Taking hold of herself, Olivia forced the vision aside.
There’s no reason they should know about the theft.
    ‘Are
you
OK?’ Ivy asked the royal couple.
    Alex and Tessa traded a look, and Olivia’s concern deepened. Forgetting the pashmina, she started forward. ‘Something
is
wrong,’ she said firmly. ‘Please tell
us.’
    ‘Well . . .’ Alex sighed, holding Tessa protectively. ‘The truth is . . . our day in Adamstown was not exactly fun.’
    Tessa sighed. ‘It’s true. First, my dress got caught in the doors of the train that took us there – and if I hadn’t had vampire strength, I would have been dragged with
it all the way along the platform!’
    Olivia gasped. ‘That’s terrible!’
    Tessa held up the torn skirt of her long, elegant dark green dress. ‘Just look at it! This was my favourite dress.’
    ‘It’s . . . still beautiful,’ Reiko mumbled, with an obvious effort. The words were kind, but from the look on her face, it gave her actual physical pain to speak to such a
celebrity.
    ‘At least Tessa wasn’t hurt,’ Alex said. ‘But then things got even worse.’ Looking miserable, he clamped his mouth shut.
    ‘Well?’ Ivy prompted. ‘What happened next?’
    Tessa patted Alex’s arm soothingly. ‘The restaurant we had lunch at served us
medium-rare
steaks.’ She winced. ‘Alex almost broke through the wall to get to the
restroom.’
    ‘Ouch!’ said Ivy.
    Reiko made a sympathetic face. ‘I
hate
it when that happens!’
    Poor Alex!
Olivia thought, seeing the usually dashing prince looking mortified – quietly and stoically mortified, of course, but still mortified.
    ‘Anyway,’ he mumbled, ‘we thought it was time to give up on our day out. So we –’
    Caw! Caw!
    Out of nowhere, a crow appeared in the air above them. As Olivia stared in shock, it dived down to flap