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‘Alessandro! What on earth are you doing here?’

‘Have both of you learnt your lines fro soaked’

‘Do you knohat time it is?’

Alessandrohis watch His head was beginning to throb

‘Just open the daan! Please’

It was the please that did it Alessandro had never ed out of hi She elbowed Charlotte aside, like adetermined to keep all visitors at bay

‘Shall I stay, Megan?’ Charlotte’s ar figure with narrow-eyed suspicion

‘No, no It’s okay I’ll just hear what he wants and he’ll be on his way’

‘Well, if you’re sure…’ Her voice i down the stairs pronto, but she grudgingly left—though not before giving Alessandro an evil look out of the corner of her eye

Her departure didn’t an had now adopted her friend’s pose, ar blue eyes narrowed, her ht, suspicious line

‘I need to get out of these clothes’

‘You need to tellhere’

‘I thought we’d agreed to a ceasefire, Megan’

‘We have But that doesn’t ht have called a ceasefire, Alessandro, but we haven’t suddenly beco the way he had looked straight through her two days before—as if she had ceased to exist

Alessandro didn’t answer Instead he began re over the banister Megan iers as if wary that it ht be contaminated

‘The coat hooks are behind you’

‘I need to get out of these things’