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The Bet
The magic show was fantastic, with hot chocolate and marshmallows appearing and disappearing all over the place, but Jessica felt in a terrible slump all the way through. Kirsten, sitting beside her, with Ben from the rental shop on the other side, clapped and laughed at everything as though she didn’t have a care in the world. Jessica couldn’t help but feel a little jealous.
After returning to the lodge on foot alongside Kirsten, while James pulled the sleigh carrying Grandpa and Charity from housekeeping, which included one exciting section where he climbed onto the front to steer as it slid down the steepest section of path, Jessica had been called off to attend to an urgent blocked toilet, and by the time she had returned, James was nowhere to be seen. Having avoided his
