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Author's POV

Everyone except Mara and Victor have gone out. Mara goes upstairs into Victor's office after she sees him quietly leave the building. She knows to be fast. She runs and tips poison into his tea. Then she shoots back down and quietly sits on the sofa, exactly like she had before. Victor walks back in, but Mara's sharp hearing tells her that he heard and saw nothing as she can often just hear dust falling.

Ten minutes later, she hears gagging. A lot of it. She runs upstairs and sees Victor, dying. He dies just as she reaches the desk. Yet again, she had left no evidence of her even being in the room. Pinging on her rubbery latex gloves again, she disables and wipes the disc on Victor's security camera, then replaces it. She knows he'll never have worked out her dark little secret.

She gets out of that room and hides her gloves. She remembers to put them under a floorboard, one nobody even knew was loose, except her. She calls the police and tells them the murderer has just struck again.

They ask her endless questions, but Mara likes to be under pressure and has amazing lies up her sleeve.

Such as for the question "Did you hear or see anybody else in this building?"

"I heard the front door open, but I assumed it was Victor and I was watching the telly." Mara gestures innocently.

She is questioned further, lying as impressively as a professional. Which she is, but she knows she's good.

She ticks Victor off, then breathes a sigh of relief. She'd expected Victor to be hard work. Nah.

"Willow Jenks [x] dead. (and thank goodness, I thought I'd never be rid of that "Squee")

Trudy Rehman [x] dead. (and thank God. She was so whiny. I thought we'd never be rid of her.)

Nina Martin [x] (bratty and self-obsessed American.)

Amber Millington [x] (Self-obsessed idiot.)

Joy Mercer [x] (whinging brat.)

KT Rush [x] (pain in the neck)

Fabian Rutter [x] (Goody two shoes and too clever {may pose a threat to my secret, gulp})

Patricia Williamson [x] (vicious and cruel {not much of a reason to kill her, I am too.})

Victor Rodenmaar [x] (Rude and horrible.)

Nine down. Now for:

Eddie Miller. [ ] (Arrogant and lazy.)

Sophia Danae. [ ] (Weird.)

Cassie Tate. [ ] (Too Amberish.)

Erin Blakewood. [ ] (Seems too smart.)

Dexter Lloyd. [ ] (Possible new Fabian.)

Alfie Lewis. [ ] (Greedy and stupid.)

Vera Devenish [ ] (Too good at solving puzzles, may pose threat.)

Jasper Choudhary [ ] (May solve out the killer, want revenge for murder of beloved fiancee. {yuck, BTW})"

She just needed Jerome out, so he wouldn't work her secret out. She really didn't want him dead.