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Paradise Lodge: Worming Herself In & Him Out

'Time for another email to Mel',

Vicki had a friend in Maine, who she'd helped evade James a long time ago, he was more than happy to send it for them, from the campus. So the following day Mel told Vicki she'd had another email from Isabella and she was happy and full of ideas to help bring the lodge into the 21st century. She had it on her phone and showed Vicki over coffee:

Hi Mel

The library here is to die for, I've had an idea I'd like to run by you! You know how the town's library is closing when old Mrs McKenzie retires, well I wondered if we incorporated it into the lodge as a reading room and if we had a cafe and a few computers as well, would that take off do you think? We would get trade from the town as well as holiday makers, what do you feel about it? Let me know soon, off to work now.

bye Bel

Vicki and Bella had made it their mission to find out who everyone in town was, what they did and would they be of any use to them, so they knew about the closure and as reading was Isabella passion thought that was a good thing to put in the email.

Turns out they were right Mel was all for it and she even mentioned it to Mrs McKenzie and she had said she would love to help Isabella set that up. When she returned to the lodge Vicki mentioned the email to Phil and he looked scared, she pretended not to notice and said how glad she was that Isabella was happy in Maine and looking for ways to help out here at home.

She also said she was going to stay in the area and was looking for a place to live near at hand. They knew they needed a way to make themselves look like they were ageing, not for now but later, so Vicki was looking into classes involving drama, as stage makeup seemed a possibility.

It was heavier and could reduce the sparkle effect as well so that might be the future for them. For now, clothes and hairdo's would suffice, even adding glasses could change the way people perceived you.

A month had passed now since Bella was turned and Phil was so jumpy and scared all the time, as it was nearing Isabella's twenty-first birthday, they felt it was time to step up their game. Bella had scoured the lodge looking for anything that would connect Phil to Isabella's parent's death.

Eventually calling every number on his phone until she hit pay dirt, one guy answered saying,

"Hey, Phil! who do you want me to take care of this time?" Vicki had a great gift for mimicking voices and pretended to be Phil,

setting up Isabella's death for when she was supposed to return next month, even en route if possible. The fool was a blabber mouth and they hardly had to say anything, he set up a time and place to hand over the money and that was when the Sherriff would bag them both.

Vicki rushed to the Sherriff's office to tell him what she had just overheard and recorded as a drunk Phil thinking he was alone, had put it on speaker phone she told him convincingly. The guy had been trying to get more money and Vicki, as Phil had said it was only one person, this time, so half the last amount, the guy then said,

"As long as I don't have to help you cover up a third body like last time! well okay, Phil buddy" he then laughed saying Phil was turning him into a lady-killer as this would be the third one for him.

So apparently Phil killed Charlie and this guy Renee and Sue, but they made it look like they all died together. The Sherriff had retrieved the car from the local pound after his last conversation with Vicki, where it was just sitting rusting away, they had supposedly died in an accident but now he was having forensics look for foul play.

It took time, but an anomaly that had been overlooked before now was checked and the car had definitely been tampered with, this was a murder investigation now. The Sherriff insisted Vicki move out immediately and an old office space was turned into a temporary flat for her by the local Sherriff's office, so she was out of harm's way.