"Amelia, I'm sorry I'll go," Rene put her hand over her chest, and turned around."Mum, don't go," Millie jumped to her feet and reached out to Rene's hand. Rene half turned, shaking her head, "No, you're better off without me."

When Gabriel had parked the car Millie put her hand on his knee, she had spent the car journey home feeling much relieved that Gabriel had understood her dilemma. She looked into his dark blue eyes and almost burst into tears at the thought that she could have lost them both, and of how much she loved him and Nick."Thank you, Gabe, thank you for understanding." She felt so foolish now, how silly she was to think they didn't care about her. They were nothing like her sisters, and she was stupid to think they would ever be like them. That emotion seemed ingrained in her subconscious that people would never care for her. It had to be banished, and she had to relax, stop feeling so on edge. This relationship was not a dream; this was real.Gabriel leaned over to kiss her, "Don't worry, it's going to be fine. Let's go and see what Nick and Katie are doing."Millie went straight into the house and to the bedroom to change into her bikini, and she was just in the bath

Millie, Katie Jess and Lucy sat in the arena, it was the final soundcheck, and Gabriel and Nick had invited them to come and watch their part of the soundcheck. They sat in the auditorium, watching everything that was going on. They had been back from Italy for two weeks now, and the guys had got straight to work. Millie and Katie had stayed at Kings Cove, Nick and Gabriel had gone back to London, and they came back on Friday night to spend the weekend with the girls. Katie stood at the French window's in the kitchen, watching and listening for the helicopter. She missed both Daddy and Papa very much. It was strange for Millie too, even though she had Jess and Lucy in the house and Claire stayed for part of the week. 

Nick waved to his family and ran off stage. They just had to wait for Gabriel to sing with Claudia Cranston and then they could go home. Katie was jumping up and down, so Millie to Katie to the ladies. While Millie was waiting for Katie to have a wee, a couple of women came in. They were busy chatting, "Oh thank the lord we got out of there," wailed one of them, "I'm not sure I can stand that ho anymore, I'm not working with her again Shailla, who does she think she is? It's her who is out of tune, not me.""Precious, my darlin' don't take any notice of her, she's chasin' that poor man, Just be

They had been without him for two days, forty-eight hours, two thousand eight hundred and eighty minutes, and every single one seemed like a lifetime of hurt, anger, and desperation. Nick had spoken to the police, and last night at the gig, Nick and the boys in the band pleaded with whoever had taken him to let him come home. What should have been a fantastic night was bittersweet. No one had seen Claudia Cranston, which, according to Nick, Dimitri, and Amelia was telling in the extreme. They had a friend who took Gabriel's place in the band, and after their set, they stood together on stage. Nick stood with this head down until the audience was quiet."You will have read in the newspapers and seen on the news that our dearest friend Gabriel is missing."  Screens each side of the stage, showed a video of a man dragging Gabriel to the limo and then pushed inside. People gasped and then a hush over the arena. "Gabriel is my best friend, we've been together sin