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SKULL GHOST REFERRED TO LOCKWOOD AS LUCY’S BOYFRIEND

‘…It’s just’ - he took a deep breath - ‘I didn’t trust myself to be with you. I was too anxious about what might happen.’
I stepped carefully over a fallen stone. Water was pooling around our feet. ‘Um, what might happen in exactly what sense?’


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(part 3) I put my hand to my silver necklace, turning it slowly between my fingers…
‘We need a new agent,’ Lockwood said.

(part 2) His dark hair spilled softly over the white sleeve.
How did he manage to look like that after five hours’ sleep, lying curled and crumpled in the chair? Being half dressed never did me and favours; with George, it practically came with a health warning. Yet Lockwood managed to carry it off perfectly. It was pleasantly warm in the room. My eyelashes squeezed a little tighter.

Lockwood… Through half-closed eyes I watched him now, trapping him tight between my lashes. I looked at his long legs, loosely crossed over the side of the chair; at the bare feet, at the slim contours of his body half concealed beneath the rumpled shirt. His face was mostly covered by his arm, but you could see the line of his jaw and the expressive lips, relaxed and slightly parted. His dark hair spilled (part 1)