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“I listen to you,” Kirsty protested, and her hed

“I found candles” Magenta had been rooting around in one of the kitchen cupboards She stood up, her arms full “You have a whole cupboard full of candles Does a person need that many?”

Caroline stuck her nose in the air—a classic defensive move “Josh thinks they’re romantic”

There was a chorus of “ahich made Caroline duck her head

“Well, we have candles, a warne,” Shona declared “This is the ht I’ve ever been to Good job we’re coht be here for a hile”

As one, the woe bay here the snow could be seen falling thick and fast Silence fell as they watched a bearound outside

“Joe?” Kirsty said “Is Ryan outside?”

“Nope, gorgeous, I’ a box of matches

“Then”—Kirsty pointed to the here there were now beahts—“who’s that?”

Ryan dropped the un

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Rainne and Alastair

“You didn’t need to take me to the castle,” Rainne said into the silence

The ten-h the snow They could barely see two feet in front of the down that thickly

“You planned to what? Walk?” Alastair pointed through the windscreen