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Ca alliterative that makes you want to throw up"

Missy shuddered "Whatever, it’s scary This monster is all my friends can talk about Caer at the Mandalay To die like that, Cam--it’s horrible"

"Yes, it is Wait a minute--Missy, you’re an actress? I never even knew you wanted to act"

"That’s because I never told anybody back in high school Fact is, Ca and I was too insecure, afraid I’d be irl I’m not exactly a success yet, but maybe, in time Who knohen so on and off, small roles in TV shows and coh I can support ht both the killer and as"

"What? You have a stalker? What’s that about?"

Missy gave her a huge grin, showing even white teeth "You’d have been proud of as last weekend And then--I couldn’t believe this--the cops let the jerk go"

"He followed you to Las Vegas?"

"Yes I saw his reflection in a storeon the Strip last Saturday, and I just snapped I’d bought , scary military knives--"

"Yes, I know the, and so I took off after hie The cops ca, that he’d never seen the crazy wo him with a knife before, never in his life Then the creep said he wouldn’t press charges because he realized I was upset, but I’d made a mistake; he wasn’t a stalker Can you believe that? Then that night Molly was tied a role in People called her Legs--yep, she had legs all the way to her tonsils I as, to say hello She was nice, Cam, and she wanted to make it so bad, just like I do, like all of us do"

Missy’s eyes filotten to Vegas and there he was It was too much I broke my contract with the Mandalay and caertip "Sorry, but it was really bad And that reain with the police in Calabasas The older detective I originally talked to isn’t there any before I left for Vegas There’s a new guy, and I have a na order on him" Missy stopped, shook her head "Sorry, I’lad you’re here If anyone can catch this psycho who killed Molly and the others, it’s you"

"Did you know any of the other murdered actresses, Missy?"

Missy sed convulsively, nodded "I knew both Melodie Anders and Connie Morrissey Melodie lived up in San Dimas I couldn’t believe it when I heard she was killed, in early April She was a good actress, really co the pave, but she visited her older parents ht here in Malibu, in the Colony, but I bet you already know that I’d see both of thearitas and nachos at El Pablo in Santa Monica sohts They were both nice, Cam, and talented

"Melodie enty-six, and Connie was only twenty-five So hopeful, so filled with dreaone"

Cam squeezed Missy’s shoulder "I’m very sorry You know I’ll do my best to catch him"

"Yes, I know" Missy cocked her head "I reainst the Calabasas Bears We were down eleven points, but we never folded because you kept whipping us up, and sure enough, we ended up winning by two points"

Caame as clearly as Missy did She could still hear her parents yelling down at them She also remembered she and her team, and her parents, had ridden the joy wave for a solid week