Filed to story: Watch Me Win Alpha (Olivia & Ethan)
My mouth dropped open. “No way!”
“Yes! You see, I thought ahead and knew that I probably wouldn’t be able to get any usable evidence from Mrs. Windsor, so I made sure that Celeste said that she had to bring the necklace back for her to ‘recharge it.’ That way, we can listen to Mrs. Windsor and her daughter’s conversations!”
“You’re a genius!” I said and gave her a big hug.
“I know, right,” Ava joked and hugged me back.
But when we pulled back, I remembered something that I had overheard.
“How did you find out that Chole had a private record?”
Ava’s face went slightly pink, and I knew that this story would be good.
*Olivia*
“I used some of my more…underground connections to figure out that she had a criminal past,” Ava explained.
“Are your connections…legal?” I asked, my tone teasing.
I sat down on her comfortable pink couch, and Ava took a seat beside me.
“Don’t ask me questions you know I can’t answer,” she said and grinned.
We laughed, and then Ava became serious. “While I was looking into Chole’s criminal history, I discovered that she had two past exonerations from jail.”
“Two?” I asked, and my eyes widened.
Ava nodded. “Isn’t that crazy? I couldn’t believe it when I found ?it out.”
“The things having a rich and well-connected family will get you out of,” I said with exasperation.
“You’re telling me. Anyway, I was talking to my psychologist friend, Angie, and I explained Chole’s past and her unpredictable behavior.”
I leaned forward, intrigued. “What did Angie say?”
“Angie said that Chole might have borderline personality disorder since these criminal tendencies couldn’t have developed overnight,”
Ava said.
“Woah,” I said. “That sounds serious.”
“It is if it’s left untreated,” Ava told me. “And I bet your Mrs. Windsor just swept her daughter’s mental health issues under the rug because she didn’t want to risk it getting out that her daughter needed to be treated for her mental health.”
I rolled my eyes.
“So, while I was looking into Chole, I discovered something crazy about her past,” Ava continued. “Chole was questioned by the police about five years ago in connection to the disappearance of one of her male classmates.”
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“That was what Mrs. Windsor was vaguely referring to during the fake ritual with Celeste. She said that it was all a big misunderstanding,” I said.
Ava leaned closer and gave me a loaded look. “That’s the thing…I don’t think it was a misunderstanding. I looked more into the case and found out that the male student had been a golden boy. You know the type. He was one of the top students involved in many extracurriculars, and he was beloved by all the students and staff.”
I was afraid to ask my next question. “Did…did someone kill him?”
“Nobody knows,” Ava said. “He’s been missing for five years, and his whereabouts are still a mystery. His parents have been torn apart by his disappearance. They got a divorce and everything.”
I paused as I thought over what she had just told me. “So, you think that Chole had something to do with this student’s disappearance.”
“I do,” she said without hesitation.. “Especially because the reason that Chole was being questioned by the police is because she had been with the missing boy the night he disappeared. She was the last to see him before he went missing.”
Then, Ava told me everything that she knew while working with Celeste. Most of the information I already knew, but I was glad to have someone on the inside to spy on Mrs. Windsor when she thought that she was in private and might say something incriminating about her daughter.
“Celeste is a good actress,” I said. “Honestly, you guys would make a good crime fighting duo. With the way that you can read people and uncover hidden information. It’s very impressive.”
“I’m not in it for the money like Celeste,” Ava assured me. “I just want to bring Chole and her mother to justice.”
“So, you said that the missing boy’s mom and dad got a divorce, is there anything else that you know about them?” I asked.
Ava’s mouth turned down in a frown, and she shivered slightly. “Well, the boy’s mother actually passed away last year.”
I clasped my hand over my mouth in shock. “How?”
“This is where it gets stranger,” Ava said and crossed her legs. “From what I found out, the mother got really obsessed with finding her son. She quit her job, cut off all her friends, and went into debt, hiring a bunch of private investigators. She barely ate or slept. The only thing she cared about was finding her son.”
“That poor woman.”
“I know, it’s awful,” Ava agreed. “So, eye witnesses claim to have seen the boy’s mother make a few trips to the Windsor family home. Two weeks after that, she died from a gas explosion. Her ex-husband had been in the house too, and they both died on impact from the explosion.”
My blood turned to ice. “Are you serious? That can’t be a coincidence!”
“I agree, but I’ll have a hell of a time proving that it wasn’t,” she said and sighed.
We were quiet for a moment, and then I told Ava about how Ethan asked me to write a letter of understanding for Chole. My friend’s eyes widened as I detailed my ex-husband’s threats to my family and how he had locked me in that private room.
“He is such an asshole,” Ava muttered after I was finished.
“You’re telling me,” I said and grabbed a throw blanket to cover me since this whole eerie situation was making me colder by the second.
Ethan’s threats today, along with the bizarre way that the boy’s parents
VerVourners had died after going over to the Windsor family home, made the hair on my arms stand. Fear clawed up my throat as I thought about my family’s safety and the fact that Ethan could go after Ava, too, since she was helping me.
Ava put a reassuring arm around me. “I’m so sorry that Ethan did that to you,” she said with anger in her voice. “He is such a bastard for threatening you and your family!”
I leaned into her comforting touch, and my heart rate lowered slightly.
Then, the doorbell rang, making me jump about five feet into the air.
Ava whipped her head to stare at me with panic in her eyes. “The gas explosion,” she hissed.
“That’s what I automatically thought of, too,” I whispered back. “Who would be at the door this late at night? I don’t think we should answer it.”
“At least I have an electric oven, not gas,” Ava joked, but her voice was shaking slightly.
“Maybe we should go stand in the hallway,” I suggested. “So, they can’ t hear us.”
Ava nodded in agreement.
But as soon as we went to another room, my stomach dropped to the ground, and I let out a squeak of fear.
“Be quiet, or whoever is at the door will hear us,” Ava muttered.
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