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Anticipation
It was snowing heavily as Emily made her way back to the holiday let, more than twenty centimetres now where the snow had been untouched. Inside, she found Veronica together with Graham from the council jovially slapping chocolate icing on a line of chocolate logs while singing along to Christmas songs.
‘Going well?’ she asked.
‘Not bad,’ Veronica said. ‘What’s up?’
‘Just visited Trower,’ Emily answered.
‘Ooh, Skeletor? How’d that go? He melt you with his laser eyes?’
‘I made it out alive,’ Emily said. ‘I’m pretty sure he’s not going to sabotage anything. At least, no more than he has done already.’
‘That’s good to know.’
If she were honest with herself, Emily still felt a little uncomfortable with the way her meeting with Nathan Trower had gone. It felt too passiv
