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She looked at SondraBeth, as looking back at her as if she couldn’t comprehend what Pandy had become

What she’d done

“Why?” SondraBeth asked, her voice full of hurt “Why didn’t you telllike you were Hellenor?”

“I never said I was Hellenor,” Pandy said sharply “It was everyone else—”

“Oh, please” SondraBeth crossed her arust

“I seem to recall that you were the one who invaded my space, ‘sista,’” Pandy continued “If you re for Henry to arrive so I could changePandy, when you showed up with your paparazzi circus”

“So it’s my fault, huh? I interrupted your plans?”

“What plans?” Pandy shouted

“Pretending to be Hellenor How long were you planning to keep it up?”

“I wasn’t planning to keep it up at all!”

“You knew about theto kill Monica!”

“Of course I wasn’t,” Pandy replied “Why would I want to kill Monica?”

“You tell me”

When Pandy continued to shake her head, SondraBeth spoke to her like she was an idiot Stating the obvious, she said, “You wanted to kill Monica to get even with Jonny”

“Honestly,” Pandy said, “it never even crossed my mind”