Filed to story: Watch Me Win Alpha (Olivia & Ethan)
The last thing I thought before I became unconscious was that Kelly was the only one who seemed perfectly fine.
*Author*
“Are they all passed out?” Chloe asked as she looked down at Aiden, Ava, Olivia, and Richard.
“Yes,” Kelly confirmed quietly.
“Nice job,” Chloe said, and a wicked grin spread across her face. “Knocking them out with the mints was a nice touch.”
Kelly crossed her arms. “I didn’t want to do that.”
Chloe shrugged as if she could care less what Kelly wanted or didn’t want. “I have your cash in a suitcase.”
“I don’t want your money,” Kelly said. “All I want is foou to tell me where you’ve been keeping Russell all these years. You promised me he was still alive.”
Chloe scoffed. “I only told you that so you would help me,” she said with a mocking glint in her eyes. “Honey, Russell has been dead for a long time. He is nothing but bones at this point.”
“You’re lying!” Kelly said and clutched a sharp knife behind her back that she had brought with her just in case.
“No, I’m not,” Chloe said in an almost bored voice. “You’re not an important enough person for me to lie to.”
Kelly ran a hand through her hair and let out a squeak of horror.
Chloe put her hands on her hips. “Oh, don’t act all innocent with me,” she snapped. “In high school, you’re the one who reached out to me wanting my help to seduce Russell.”
Kelly stomped her foot in frustration. “But afterward, you made me choose between being publicly humiliated or breaking up with Russell.”
“Yeah, well, if you truly loved Russell, you would have chosen to run through the school naked, ” Chloe said and examined her nails.
Kelly began to cry, hot tears gushing down h?r pale cheeks. “Then, you made me choose something far worse. You made me pick between saving my life or Russell’s.”
“And you chose yourself, Kelly. So, why are you all of a sudden acting like a victim? The only person that is responsible for Russell’s death is you,” Chloe stepped closer to Kelly and jabbed her chest with her finger to emphasize her point. “You know right before I killed him, Russell was calling out your name, wanting to be with you.”
These words seemed to break Kelly. She pulled out her kime, but instead of using it on Chloe, she ran the blade across the palm of her hand, staining the seemed to give he, nite skin with ? deep red color. Cutting herself seemed to give her a twisted sense of peace. Kelly’s eyes fluttered close, and a small smile formed on her face.
“Can you please just take me to see Russell one last time?” Kelly asked and slowly opened her eyes. “I just want to say goodbye to him. I never had the chance in the past. You owe me for helping you.”
A bemused grin spread across Chloe’s face, but she shrugged and gestured for her to follow.
As the two girls walked across the grass, Kelly’s blood dripped periodically, creating a horrific trail behind them.
“Tie up the four of them by the big apple tree,” Chloe instructed one of the guards. “When they wake up, they will be executed as punishment. I will have that honor myself.”
Mrs. Windsor overheard her daughter, and her bottom lip trembled. The older woman took the bodyguard aside and spoke to him in a low, urgent voice.
“Do not allow my daughter to kill anyone,” she said.
She wanted to salvage what was left of Chloe’s soul, but she also didn’t want Olivia to die and for Ethan or Alexander to seek revenge on the Windsor family. Also, four deaths would be impossible to cover up.
How had her life come to this?
*Author*
As the bodyguards continued to dig up the dirt around the peach tree, Mrs. Windsor nervously glanced back at the four unconscious bodies that were on her property.
“I’m, um, going to go check on them,” Chloe’s mom said with anxiety in her voice. “I want to make sure they are all still breathing.”
Chloe rolled her eyes and crossed her arms tightly. “You’re wasting your time, Mom. They won’t be breathing for much longer.”
Mrs. Windsor’s blood turned to ice. She shook her head as she walked away from the group. She couldn’t believe how cruel her own flesh and blood had turned out to be. As she walked across the damp grass, she wondered if she made the right decision in helping her daughter bury Russell Lewis all those years ago. If she had turned her daughter in and gotten her the help she so obviously needed, she wouldn’t be in this living nightmare right now.
As her heart slammed against her chest, Mrs. Windsor knelt down and checked to make sure that Richard was still breathing.
But her heart stopped breathing altogether when the man opened his eyes.
A scream formed on Mrs. Windsor’s lips, but Richard sat up and managed to quiet her down before she could give them away.
“Don’t you want this all to end? Don’t you want your daughter to get the help she needs?” Richard whispered, afraid if he took her down by force, he would attract the attention of the others.
Mrs. Windsor stayed frozen, her face pale and her expression one of surprise, but she didn’t say anything or even move a muscle.
Under the protection of the apple tree, Olivia, Ava, and Aiden sat up, clearly not unconscious. Olivia brushed off the dirt on her shirt, and Ava shook her head, dispelling a few leaves that had gotten caught in her hair.
“How…how are you not all unconscious?” Mrs. Windsor whispered, her eyes wide.
Olivia and Ava looked at each other and shared a small smile.
“Kelly thought that she was playing us,” Ava said, and a mischievous grin crossed her face. “But we were actually playing her.”
“You see, Kelly had reacted too calmly after hearing that Ava and I had lied to her when we first met her,” Olivia explained. “This made Awa and I suspicious. We began to text back and forth when we were sitting and waiting for you and Chloe to exit the house.”
“My sister had included Richard and I in a group message to let us in on their suspiciousness,” Aiden explained.
“When Kelly offered us all mints, we knew that she had tampered with them. It was too random,” Ava said. “So, we only pretended to eat the mints, and Olivia texted the group to follow her lead when the time came. When she began to pass out, we all knew it was just an act.” She turned to her friend. “Great performance, by the way.”
Olivia blushed but smiled. “Thank you.”
Richard took rope out of the backpack he had been carrying and began to tie Mrs. Windsor’s hands behind her back just in case. But the older woman wasn’t even putting up a fight. “I had my suspicions from the beginning, actually. Before we left Kelly’s apartment, I noticed that a knife was missing from the wooden block in the kitchen that was there when we first got to her apartment. I knew that Kelly was planning something nefarious as soon as she agreed to take us to her uncle’s village.” Olivia, Ava, and Aiden looked at him with respect.
“Wait…if Kelly took a knife, and she knew that she was going to see Chloe. Do you think Kelly agreed to help out Chloe just so she would get a chance to kill her for revenge?” Olivia theorized.
Ava’s eyes widened with realization, and she nodded. “I bet you’re right”
This new information seemed to jolt Mrs. Windsor out of her shock “No! You must save my daughter, please! I know she’s done some horrible things, but she’s my baby. You have to save her.
Olivia looked down at the woman with hatred. “Are you kidding? After everything that Chloe has put me through, why would I try to save her? If you had gotten the help your daughter needs, you could have spared a lot of death and destruction. But you were too protective over your family’s status. You make me sick.”
After shaking her head in disgust, Olivia took Richard to the side. “Do you remember the plan I texted you about?” she whispered
Immediately, Richard understood and quietly crept towards the pond.
Meanwhile, at the pond, Kelly had become even more calm, but there was something brewing in her eyes. Her right palm was caked with dried blood. She looked toward the center of the pond, and excitement flashed across her face. “Do you hear that? I think Rusell is calling for me! I think he’s alive in the water.” Her eyes filled with tears. “He’s telling me how cold he is.”
“You’re even crazier than me,” Chloe muttered. She picked up a peach and held it out to Kelly. “Here, maybe you should eat something. I can’t have you fainting. Then, I’d have to deal with another unconscious body.”
As Kelly reached for the fruit, her eyes flashed with mania. She shot out her pale arm and grabbed onto Chloe’s wrist. She pulled out her knife, and there was a flash of silver as she pressed the knife against Chloe’s neck.
“You will come down with me to save Russell,” Kelly shouted as she pressed the knife even closer to Chloe’s smooth skin. “You and I are going to go for a little swim.”
Chloe struggled to break free and began to scream. “You crazy bitch!”
Just then, Amelia and Ethan arrived to witness Kelly threatening Chloe. But instead of helping his bride-to-be, Ethan clamped a hand over his mother’s mouth and they ducked behind a tall apple tree. Because of the commotion Chloe was making, no one noticed their arrival.
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