Free Eve Snow Psychic PI: The Case of the Secret Admirer 1 by Sandra Ross Page A

her,” Eve said. “I didn’t want to leave you all but, at the time, I didn’t feel there was anything else I could do.”
    “Yeah, that’s what she said,” Danette said.
    Turning to Chad, she said, “Detective Morrison, please find whoever did this to Sara. She was such a good person and she certainly didn’t deserve this! Tell me how I can help. I’ll do anything you ask!”
    “I appreciate that, Ms. Landers,” Chad said. “Now to begin with, had Sara said anything to you lately about being worried or scared of something? Did she mention anything odd happening in her life recently?”
    “Did you find the gifts?” Danette asked.
    “Gifts? What gifts would those be?” Chad asked.
    “Oh, my God! I can’t believe you don’t know about that yet! About a month ago, Sara started getting these gifts. They started out innocent enough, with things like bouquets of flowers and the moved on to books by her favorite author, jewelry, and finally they started getting really weird.”
    “Weird in what way?”
    “Well, the last thing she got was this slutty nighty thing. It was black, see through and had various… um… ‘openings’ that had no semblance of material. That one totally freaked her out.”
    “Who were these gifts from, Ms. Landers?”
    “That was the worst thing, I guess. She didn’t know who was sending them. Notes came with them, but these were always typed with the same words. They all came from someone called Secret Admirer.”
    Chad and Eve exchanged a look. Then Chad faced Danette once more.
    “Did you say Secret Admirer?”
    “Yes,” Danette replied. “That’s right. Only that last one, the one with the slutty nighty, was a little different.”
    “Different how?”
    “This one said ‘See you soon. Your Secret Admirer’ or something like that.”
    “How long ago did that last gift arrive, Ms. Landers?”
    “Oh, let me think,” Danette said. “Um, I think it was a little over a week ago, maybe less. I can’t remember the exact date, but it was around that time.”
    “Do you know what Sara did with these gifts?”
    “Well, at first, she kept them because the flowers were nice and she’s never been someone who can just throw away a book or jewelry. Of course, the flowers died, so she would have thrown those away eventually, but I’m not sure what she did with the nighty. We never talked about it after that. At first, she thought Bryan had sent it, but then she changed her mind because she said no way was that his style. Besides, they had been broken up for months and she was pretty sure he knew she would never take him back. She caught him cheating on her, you know.”
    At that last part, Danette lowered her eyes as if she were embarrassed over the topic.
    “Danette,” Eve said quietly. “Was there anything else that happened to upset Sara recently?”
    “One night last week, she showed up here late,” Danette replied. “It was about midnight and she was really scared. She kept apologizing for it being so late and waking me up, but she wanted to spend the night here.”
    “Why was she afraid?” Chad asked.
    “She said that she felt like she was being watched,” Danette said. “She said that she was sitting at the bar in the kitchen and that she suddenly felt as if someone was watching her from her sliding glass doors. The feeling was so strong that she was too afraid to even approach the door to pull the blinds. So she said she got up from the bar chair and tried to act as normal as possible. As soon as she was out of the kitchen, she ran to her room, threw some things in an overnight bag, and ran to her car. She was terrified to go outside in case someone really was out there watching her, but she also knew she couldn’t stay there. So she took a chance and raced to her car and came straight here.”
    “What happened after that?” Chad asked.
    “Nothing really. The next morning she felt silly for having been so spooked. I’m sure it had something to do with being