“What’s that?”
“She got involved with Brent Ellington. He was never right for her.”
“Did you ever meet him?”
“A couple times when we visited our son and his family in Indianola. He struck me as being rather arrogant and selfish, and I don’t like the way he looked down on Aelissm. He wasn’t obvious about it, of course, and she’s always been sure of herself, so it didn’t bother her.”
“I can see that. What about Adam?”
“I met him just the once, and I liked him. He seemed like such a sweet young man, very humble, funny. I would never have thought him capable of strangling his own best friend.”
Almost exactly what Bill said, Pat noted, saving the information for later.
“I wish she hadn’t met either of them. If she hadn’t, none of those things would have happened to her. I think she’s han
