A Flower Shop Mystery 07 - Shoots to Kill by Kate Collins

Author:Kate Collins
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

ibby was a stalker? Wow. Was it a coincidence that she was now claiming to be the one being stalked—or was she cleverly turning the tables? “Did Lib—er, Betsy stalk you while you were roommates?” I asked Roshni.

“She didn’t stalk me. She stalked her art professor’s husband, Nolan Grant. He had to get a restraining order to stop her.”

Libby had lied to Dave! She’d totally denied having any legal problems.

“Can you believe that Betsy is still hounding me to send her news and pics of Mr. Grant?” Roshni asked. “I mean, okay, so she’s wild about the guy. He isn’t interested. Grow up! I told her point-blank that I didn’t have time for her ridiculous fantasy life and I wasn’t about to get into trouble by helping her live it out, but she doesn’t get it.”

“What was her fantasy life?”

“That she was going to marry Nolan Grant, adopt the Grants’ twins, and teach art at the college, as if Professor Grant was simply going to disappear. It was like Betsy thought she could just take over the poor woman’s life. Is that insane or what?”

Insane—and familiar. “Would you tell me how it started?”

Roshni heaved a sigh, as though she didn’t even like to think about it. “During our senior year, Professor Grant would hire Betsy occasionally to babysit her twins, until she found out that Betsy had developed a big crush on her husband and had even tried to seduce him. Needless to say, Betsy wasn’t hired again, but that didn’t stop her. She dyed her hair dark brown and had it styled just like Professor Grant’s. Then she started dressing like her, and even bought a brand-new Mercedes because Professor Grant drives one—an old one, but still.”

Even more familiar.

“Things got really feisty after that. Betsy started following Mr. Grant everywhere, showing up wherever he went—she even brought a picnic basket to his office so they could have lunch together—as though she really was his wife. He warned her to stay away, and so did the professor, but they finally had to get a restraining order. Betsy almost didn’t graduate because of her conduct, but her mom flew in at the last minute to talk to the dean, then whisked Betsy away immediately after graduation.

“I thought Betsy had finally given up on her fantasy, but she’d barely been home a day when she started calling me, asking me to give Mr. Grant messages from her, and wanting me to take photos of him with my cell phone and send them to her. I told her no way, but she wouldn’t drop it. I finally stopped taking her phone calls and wrote her a letter telling her if she didn’t leave me alone, I’d file a restraining order, too.”

“I can understand why you don’t want anything more to do with Betsy,” I told her. “By the way, just out of curiosity, what is the professor’s first name?”

“Well, it’s Patricia, but everyone calls her Patsy.”

Patsy and Betsy. Abby and Libby. Creepy. “When you first met Betsy, what was she calling herself?”

“Elizabeth.

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