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‘Their unknown lodger,’ said Jenna,the mo on his sleeping bag, unshaven, unke paraphernalia Some people left lampshades or curtains in their houses after they’d sold the tenant

Jason tipped the beaten egg into a pan, tipping it this way and that so the yellowishsurface

‘Your sabbatical hasn’t exactly been relaxing so far,’ he said

‘No I may need another one to recover’

He sa or tai chi Aren’t they ood for stamina?’

‘I wasn’t talking about that,’ she said, her cheeks heating in iven her earlier on in bed ‘I y-bargy First all that stuff about Lawrence Harville trying to fra crimes, now a mysterious skeleton in the hidden cellar I can see why the papers are going gaga over it all I’azine’

‘Are those forensic guys co back today?’

‘No They got everything they needed yesterday It’s all lab work from now on’

‘D’you think it’s that chick Harville told you about? The one as meant to have committed suicide? Fairy Fay or whatever he called her?’

‘Could be I’ve no idea Harvilleit up to freak me out That would be typical of him’

‘He must have known that cellar existed He lied about that Got any ham?’

‘Soe’

Jason gave her a look

‘Is that ham or not?’

‘Yeah Wafer thin Italian ham It’s nice Try it’

Jason went to the fridge h for him

‘I wonder if he’s been charged,’ said Jenna, heron the Hall’s former owner and Jason’s near-nemesis

‘You knoas’

‘No, not with the threatening behaviour towardsstuff’

Jason shrugged, peeling open the packet of prosciutto

‘Up to the CPS now innit,’ he said ‘And Kayley holding her nerve And Mia finding hers’

‘I feel for those girls He manipulated them’

‘Don’t let your heart bleed too– Mia especially’