5Aldo bursts out laughing at the shape of Ross and Luce, sprawled on the floor, goggling up at him with blank terror on their faces. The two of them had just about fell into the fireplace with the fright he just gave them.
He's just finished his session, come upstairs and heard them talking in the library. He thought it'd be funny to sneak up behind them and give them a right good scare. The thick carpet and soundproofed walls here make it easy to sneak up on people.
And it is. Funny as f**k. Aldo's doubled over, fuckin howling, but Luce – who for some reason's dressed only in her b*a and knickers and a duvet - is raging, her expression in the space of about a second going from panic to relief and then fury.
“You fuckin arsehole!” she yells, and throws one of her shoes at him.
Ross is
