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ran to get up under it before it closed.
    “I’ve been calling you all morning.”
    “I got your messages.” He went inside of his house. She followed.
    He walked to the front door and opened it. “If you don’t want me to call your fiancé, I suggest that you leave right now.”
    “What is it about her? Am I not pretty enough? Is it because I’m short? What?.”
    Garth felt sorry for her. “Apparently Trevor loves you or he wouldn’t have asked you to marry him. Be satisfied with that and stop comparing yourself to Eva.”
    “So when did it happen?”
    Garth looked at her as if she was crazy. “What are you talking about?”
    “When did you fall in love with Eva too?”
    “First of all, it’s none of your business who I’m in love with but for the record, I’m not in love with her or any other woman for that matter.”
    “No wonder I didn’t stand a chance,” she said, as she walked to the door and stood in the doorway, inches away from him.
    “You didn’t stand a chance because you’re a cheater and I could never fall in love with a cheater.”
    He gently pushed her out the door, closed it and locked it. He heard her let out a few obscenities.
    “I swear you and Tre deserve each other,” Garth said, out loud about Trevor and Cheryl.
     

~ 15 ~
     
    “Looks like I missed out on a good party. Too bad I had to substitute for someone on another assignment at the last minute,” Brenda said, as she handed Eva the newspaper.
    Eva looked at the pictures and read the captions. She scanned the article to see if any of the drama she experienced had been mentioned. Fortunately, it wasn’t.  “It was okay. You didn’t miss much.”
    Brenda looked over the rim of her glasses.  “Now, I really wish I would have been there.”
    The buzzer on the gate sounded. “I wasn’t expecting anyone,” Eva said, as she stood to go view the person at the gate. A truck driver was ringing the buzzer. “Were you expecting a delivery?” she asked Brenda.
    “No.” Brenda reached for her gun. “Let me go check it out. Watch me on the monitor. If anything happens, hit the alarm button so it’ll automatically lock all the doors and alert the police.”
    Eva tried not to panic. It was only a delivery truck. She watched Brenda on the monitor. She was relieved to see Brenda walk back to the house carrying a brown envelope. She met her at the door.
    “When did they start delivering on Sundays.”
    “Well, looks like your fan is at it again.”
    “I knew it had been too quiet lately.”
    Brenda reactivated the alarm. They went to Eva’s office and sat at the table. “I need a pair of scissors.”
    Eva looked through her desk until she found a pair of scissors. She watched as Brenda tore open the brown envelope. “Looks like your fan has turned it up a notch.” Brenda took out her cell phone and made a phone call.
    Eva picked up the pictures of her and saw the words written in red across her face with the words D-i-e B-i-a-t-c-h. She shivered. She threw the pictures back on the table.
    She waited for Brenda to get off the phone. Brenda said, “I wasn’t able to reach Garth, so Trevor is on his way over. We’re going to see if we lift some fingerprints. In the meantime, I need to see if I can track the sender of the package with this tracking number.”
    Trevor was the last person she wanted to see; but then again, this might be divine intervention. It was meant for Trevor to come over. She went upstairs and changed into something more alluring as they waited for Trevor to arrive.
    Brenda was just as surprised as Trevor to see Eva come in the room with a white pants suit on.
    “ Trevor,” Eva said, as she walked over to him and gave him a friendly hug.
    Trevor didn’t respond to her gesture. He looked at the defamed pictures and said, “I’m taking these with me so I can test them out at our lab.”
    “What do you think it means?” Eva asked.
    “Fortunately, they haven’t resorted to doing anything but send