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Revelations
‘Is my little girl moping?’
Alan leaned around the curtain that was Lucy’s only privacy and grinned. Lucy, who had been checking Elizabeth Trevellian’s i********: account, slipped her phone under her pillow and rolled over.
‘I have a bit of a stomachache,’ she said. ‘I think it’s too much hot chocolate. Go on, you and Mum go out. I’ll stay here and look after the tent.’
Alan shook his head. ‘Oh no you don’t. We’re less than a week away from Christmas and I have my whole family together. Let’s go and get dinner at one of the little restaurants up on the high street.’
‘I really don’t feel like it.’
‘Come on, Lucy….’
‘I’m tired, Dad. It was a long day.’
Alan smiled again. ‘But doesn’t a day like that just energise you? I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun while carr
