They might be waking the whole street at this hour, but for a few blissful seconds Tess didn’t care, too entirely focused on wreaking her vengeance – and collapsing to the floor after Saff in a violent bout of side-splitting laughter. “Say sorry and I might stop,” she considered, still poking at her side threateningly. “I look perfectly presentable.”

(And if she had, she definitely didn’t now.)

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