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stamped
her foot on the floor. “I’d rather you didn’t talk to the whore.”
    “Her name is
Charma,” Cindy couldn’t stand it any longer.
    “Who cares what
her name is? She’s a whore, isn’t she?” Loretta demanded.
    “So what?” said
Cindy, “it doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a name.”
    At that Loretta
shook her head vigorously, “Whores are the dregs of the earth, believe me,” she
retorted. “They draw men down into hell and wrap their tentacles around them.
They wreck marriages, eat up all the money.  I can’t imagine why in the world
you’re standing up for her?”
    Well, they
certainly don’t come to your wedding boutique, Cindy wanted to answer, but kept
her mouth shut. There was no point in upsetting Loretta further, getting side
tracked on this point.
    “Do what I say,”
Loretta continued forcefully then, “talk to Andy, Pete’s coworker, and then
investigate the real estate company.“
    “I plan to do both,” Cindy complied.
    “And forget about talking to the
whore,” Loretta threw in for good measure.
    Cindy felt no need to respond. She had
no intention of reporting to Loretta  who she
    Would
or would not interview. Of course she would speak to Charma . In fact,
Loretta’s adamant protests made Cindy want to do it all the more.
    “When can I speak
to Andy?” Cindy turned the conversation in a direction that Loretta could
tolerate.
    “He’ll come and
meet you downstairs in the lobby any time you’re ready,” Loretta said,
seemingly relieved.
    “Okay, I can see
him in a few minutes,” said Cindy.
    At that Loretta’s
eyes closed. “Thank you so much Cindy, really, thank you. I can’t tell you how
much it means to me that you respect my wishes and respect me.”
    “Of course I
respect you,” Cindy went over to Loretta and gave her a hug. “What happened to
Pete doesn’t reflect upon you.”
    “It could though,”
Loretta surprisingly began to whimper. “How would you feel if the man you’d
lived with and loved for years ended up killed by a whore?”
    “Horrible,” Cindy
whispered.
    “You got it,
then,” Loretta breathed. “Horrible, humiliated.”
    “And I’d be mad
at him, too,” Cindy continued. “Deep down I’d feel scared that all along he’d
been cheating on me when I thought we were so in love.”
    “Deceived to the
core!” breathed Loretta
    “Exactly,” Cindy
responded.
    “Well, that’s not
my situation,” Loretta’s manner shifted. “I’m not mad at Pete, I’m not scared
he cheated. I trusted him completely and I was right.  Something else happened
to him and that’s why you’re here. You have to help me find out.”
    “I’ll do my
best,” Cindy promised, “And you’re lucky you trusted Pete so much. That’s rare
these days.”
    At that Loretta’s
eyes filled with tears. It was the first time Cindy had seen her even close to
crying.  It relieved Cindy, made Loretta more human.
    “Pete and I had a
rare relationship,” Loretta’s bottom lip started to tremble. “And I needed it
to be that way, precious and rare.  Maybe Pete’s gone now, but I’m not going to
lose my memory of him. I won’t let anyone take that away from me, ever!  Not
anybody, even my father!”
     “I understand,” Cindy
said softly.
    “I know you do,”
said Loretta, “that’s why you’re here.  You always were special. I never forgot
you, ever Cindy. That’s why I called you to help.”
    Thank you for
calling me,” said Cindy.
    Loretta looked up
at her directly then. “Did you trust your partner too? Were you sure you could
trust him and then found out he was cheating on you? Is that why the two of you
broke up?”
    Cindy was
startled by Loretta’s question. “No, that’s not what happened,” she said. 
“Mattheus would never have cheated on me.”
    Loretta sighed, “Wonderful,”
she said. “So you really do understand how I feel then?”
    “Yes, I
understand,” Cindy repeated.
    “What happened
between you and your