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“She’s not there anymore. She went off to run another sale.”

“I can’t believe this!” Hayley said. “Tell me every detail. What do you mean she went off to run another sale?”

“She’s in business with another woman. They help people with garage sales, higher-end ones, I guess.”

Hayley was hyperventilating. “How can I compete with that?” she asked sarcastically. “Obviously Scott likes women who plan events!”

“I guess he does.”

“Does she have another big garage sale Saturday night, and he has nothing to do? Is that why he wants to see me?”

“I don’t know, Hayley. It’s a good question.” Regan paused. “She wasn’t wearing an engagement ring.”

“That doesn’t mean anything,” Hayley said. “It might not have fit.”

“That’s true.”

“Or maybe she hated the ring and is making him change it.”

“Always a possibility.”

“But I want to find out what’s going on with this guy! You thought I was mad this morning? Regan, what’s the name of their business?”

“Hayley, be careful.”

“Regan, Scott asked me out again! This situation has not been put to rest. I’m not prolonging the agony. He is. And he’s going to pay for it! What’s the name of their business? Oh wait! What’s her name?”

“Jillian. Her partner’s name is Jody. I don’t know their last names.”

“And the name of their business?”

“Garage Sale Gurus.”

“Oh please!”

“I’ll help you, Hayley, but right now I have something else going on.” Regan explained about Cleo Paradise.

“Cleo Paradise? I just saw her archenemy at lunch today.”

“Her archenemy? Who’s that?”

“An actress named April Dockton. Cleo beat her out for the part in My Super Super. The producer I had lunch with said if she were Cleo, she wouldn’t want to meet April in a dark alley.”

65

When Kit went back into her office building, she stopped at the newsstand in the lobby. The headline of a popular woman’s magazine caught her eye.

“Three words to describe why you will never ever ever get married. PICKY PICKY PICKY. Who do you think you are anyway?”

Oh swell, Kit thought. It’s the old blame-the-victim. Whenever people told her she was too picky, she’d point out to them that a guy she was dating and thought she wanted to marry turned into a psycho and tried to kill her—and her best friend. So there! I wasn’t picky enough. I overlooked signs that he was a deranged killer just so I could have a relationship. She avoided mentioning that he was also extremely handsome and very rich.