“Jodi seduced them, Adele.”

“NO! NO! NO! She would never do something like that, it was them. It was them. It was them! It was them!!” Adele screamed, the echo filling the room.

She continued, “Nikki Stevens, Francesca Wolfe and Dawn Denbo. They threw themselves onto the Dean. Imagine my surprise when I walked into Dean Lerner’s office one day and found Dawn with Dean Lerner. Dawn knew I had seen something and came to me for help, she told me her sob story, that Dean Lerner made use of her for sex, what a load of bullshit. So I slowly found the girls who were sleeping with the Dean through Dawn, and I become their councilor.”

Bette’s eyes widened in the realization that Carmen, Ashleigh and Sara had been confiding in Jodi and that the room they had used for their interview had been Adele’s.

“I must say, Bette, you FBI are a sloppy bunch. To think that after Carmen called me to tell me you were done with your questioning, I headed back to find a page from your file underneath my bed. Tsk tsk. Such a dead give away. I knew you were close to figuring out my secret. I was expecting you, it was only a matter of time,” Adele added with a laugh.

“Why my sister?” Bette asked in a whisper, tears streaming down her face, “Why did you hurt Kit?”

“Kit Jamison was just in the way. We worked together as Dean Lerner’s assistants. She suspected what I had been up to and when I brought Nikki back to my estate one day, she followed me. She left me no choice, I couldn’t risk anyone exposing my ‘ice-cream’ operation here, could I? Kit was a kill of convenience; that is not to say I didn’t enjoy the process,” Adele let out an evil laugh that bounced off the walls of the room.

“There was no blood,” Bette said, “No blood spill, how?”

“Oh oh oh!” Adele jumped up and down excitedly, clapping her hands together, “That was the most brilliant part of my process. Oh, I feel like Willy Wonka sharing his chocolate secrets.”

“I left them inside this freezer for a couple of days, oh, but not freezing them completely, no no. That would have made them a block of ice, what fun would that be. You could say I learned the skills from my father, with all the knowledge I had of freezing ice-cream, have you never wondered why even though ice-cream is frozen, it’s not like a block of solid ice when you eat it? I’ll tell you.”