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Author's POV

The police question Mara relentlessly. She groans furiously and stresses "I don't know who killed anyone! I'm just as concerned as everyone else around here!" She screeches. "You've been falsely accusing me! I could get my lawyer out! You cannot just go about accusing people!"

They sigh and let her go. They've interrogated everyone. They're no closer to finding the killer. Mara smiles to herself, thinking of how many murders she got out of the way and she committed safely. She sits heavily on the sofa, her face pale. Jerome says "Jaffray, are you alright?"

Mara shakes her head. "I'm just thinking of Trudy and what she'd say about all these people dying. I mean, everyone we love is dying and we're all unsafe."

She starts crying, forcing tears to slide as she sobs. Jerome holds her. "It'll be OK, they'll catch the killer."

Mara thinks No they won't. You have her in your arms. Instead of voicing it, she whispers "I hope so."

She knows they won't catch her. Vera says "Mara, dear, can I talk to you?"

Vera takes Mara to the laundry room, where Jasper is stood. "What's wrong?" Mara asks innocently.

"We know that you're the killer." Jasper whispers.

"How?" Mara asks.

"Let's say Trudy left us a letter, written by her after Willow died." Jasper says. "And we saw that she knew it was you."

"Fine." Mara smiles, sliding her gloves on and her little gun out. She quickly and quietly shoots the duo in the laundry room and running out after the police car. "Help!" She screams, having slid her gloves off and left a massive gun in the laundry room after firing it once and running. "Help, the killer's struck again!"

They see the gun and the two bodies and realize Mara's crying. Jerome takes hold of her. "She's terrified, aren't you, Mara?"

"Terrified! That's an understatement, I'm gonna die, I can't breathe!" Mara sobbed.

The cops had the bodies removed and taken to the morgue. Jasper had a note in his pocket, saying he wanted to be buried next to Trudy.

She crosses Jasper and Vera off her list. Only three of them to go and Jerome's all hers.

"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.)

Eddie Miller. [x] (Arrogant and lazy.)

Sophia Danae. [x] (Weird.)

Dexter Lloyd. [x] (Possible new Fabian.)

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

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

Fourteen down. Now for:

Cassie Tate. [ ] (Too Amberish.)

Erin Blakewood. [ ] (Seems too smart.)

Alfie Lewis. [ ] (Greedy and stupid.)"

She only had to get Jerome out, so he wouldn't be blamed. How? And more importantly, what could she do to save him?