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Neil Stopper groaned loudly as he threw back the duvet and struggled out of bed. He felt absolutely rotten, which was hardly a surprise given the amount he had drunk and smoked over the last day and a half, not that he could remember exact quantities, a lot was as close to a guess as he could get.
With a second, heavy groan he got to his feet. His footsteps slow, and sounding to his ears like an elephant walking across the skin of a drum, which made him grimace with each step, he made his way along the passage to the bathroom, where he got into the shower.
The first blast of water was ice-cold and made him shiver and yell out in surprise. He quickly turned the dial to get the hot water flowing and warm himself. There was one benefit to the sudden shock he had received, it served to w
