Free You Had Me at Halo by Amanda Ashby Page A

the point of them sending me back here to sort out my issues if I’m stuck in this body? It’s driving me crazy.”
    “Ah, finally we have something in common,” Vince retorted.
    “You know it’s starting to become quite obvious why you have no friends,” Holly replied. “ And is Rochelle Jackson touching Todd’s butt? ”
    “Okay, Holly, don’t freak out,” Gemma said tentatively, as if she were about to reveal some more information.
    “Don’t freak out about what?” she said in a dangerously low voice.
    Gemma let out a muffled sigh. “I didn’t want to tell you before but Rochelle’s been making a play for Todd ever since you died.”
    “But I’ve only been dead two weeks. What kind of person would go after a dead girl’s boyfriend like that?”
    “I know, right,” Gemma immediately agreed. “But the thing is, Todd isn’t remotely interested. Holly, he’s really upset about you dying. It’s totally thrown him.”
    “Well, so it should. I mean we were meant to be...oh.” Holly broke off with a start as something occurred to her. “It was Rochelle who gave me the pills! You were so right when you said that it couldn’t have been Tina. Because what would be the point of only knocking me out for one night? But with Rochelle it’s different. She wanted to knock me out so she could have Todd all to herself at the ball.”
    For a moment Gemma was quiet before she finally nodded her head. “We both know that Rochelle doesn’t stop at anything to get what she wants, so making you fall asleep for the night certainly wouldn’t be beyond her. Unbelievable.”
    “I’ll say. That girl does not know how to take no for an answer. And she definitely has boundary issues. And why is she still touching him?”
    “Well, that’s about to change,” Gemma said firmly. “As soon as we get proof, then she’s history. I think we should start with her office.”
    “Her and her stupid office,” Holly growled. Rochelle liked to mention it at every opportunity since the rest of last year’s graduates were still stuck in cubicles. Word on the street, though, was that she hadn’t earned that office at all, she’d only gotten it because she was friendly with the CEO. Real friendly.
    And now she had stopped Todd from proposing on the night of the ball. Well the pills may have worked, but there was no way Holly was going to stand by and let her get away with stealing her fiancé as well. This was war.
    Holly could feel the determination rising up through her. Finally they were getting somewhere. At this rate they would catch Rochelle, convince Todd of the truth and still have time to watch the latest episode of The Rich and the Restless before she went back to heaven. Perfect.
    Gemma nodded. “That girl is toast. We’re going to take her down.”
    Vince folded his arms and Holly could tell by the way his lips were turning that he was about to frown. “Before you go pointing fingers, shouldn’t we be working out how she managed to do it?”
    “Oh.” Gemma paused. “I hadn’t thought of that. I guess we’d better retrace your steps first.”
    Holly pulled out a piece of paper from Vince’s pocket. “I do have this. It’s a list of all the things I remembered doing on Friday. According to the Internet the tablets could still keep working for up to eight hours, so I’ve gone back as far as ten in the morning.”
    Gemma peered over and chewed her lip as she studied it. “You only had one cup of coffee in work and that was made by Tina, so Rochelle couldn’t have spiked your drink. Are you sure you didn’t go somewhere for lunch? Perhaps she did it then?”
    “No.” Holly reluctantly agreed. She’d been particularly busy that day trying to get her presentation all ready for Monday so she hadn’t even left the building for a break. “I brown bagged it and ate at my desk.”
    “Did you put it in the staff room fridge?” Vince wondered but Gemma gave a dismissive shake of her head.
    “They work on