“I got that petal from Renee’s room… And that bouquet was in Natalie ’s room when her heart stopped and taken away the next morning.”
“Did you suspect it was the flowers?”
“I didn’t take the flowers away,” she said. “Raymond did. He was also the one that sent them.”
“You think he….” Duke didn’t finish his words.
A loud crash in the hallway drew their attention away from their conversation. Bell moved quickly out the door to see a man lying on the ground, the decorative shelf he had pulled down beside him.
Bell started towards him but stopped when Peter reached him first.
“Are you ok?” Peter asked.
The man on the ground began to stir, mumbling something Bell couldn’t hear.
Suddenly the man tried to get up.
“Whoa, whoa, slow down, it looks like you might be hurt,” Peter tried to ge
