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Juliet and Sam skipped school after lunch. It was study break, exams were fast approaching, they felt confident, and Sam wanted to help ease the pain of his girlfriend. Juliet had shared her deepest feelings with Sam soon after they had made love for the first time, and she knew exactly what her Granddad would think of that, and perhaps more importantly, what he would do. He would smash Sam’s face in, and then he would deal with her. What was she thinking of, sharing intelligence he considered private, certainly not to be shared in Portsmouth; this place was their getaway. Gerdad viewed their warehouse home as a sanctuary, to be violated by nobody, and he defended this, their hearth and home, vigorously, and more than once violently, except he ran away afterwards. So why now, she alway
