Casting aside her usual decorum – if she couldn’t with Bella, then with who? – Angel shuffled closer and wrapped her friend in her arms. It was a gesture more becoming of the children they had been together once upon a time but Angel held her tighter than ever before and held back tears at the thought that Bella might have died but for Camilla being a slattern.

Angel had never been so glad of anyone else’s unfortunate behaviour.

“Everything will be fine darling, you’ll see. You know,” she suggested idly. "You could take some of my laudanum if you'd like? I get upset all the time and it makes such a difference."

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time of death: when MJ dropped this heart-stopping set