“Make sure to get the….evidence,” I said in a weak voice.


    But at that moment, Ava clutched her head, dropped her phone, and crashed to the ground. Richard fainted a second after her, and Aiden fell right on top of him as he bent to help him up.


    We were dropping like flies.


    As my heart mmed against my chest, I felt the darkness consuming me. Just before I went underpletely, Kelly stood above me with remorse in her eyes.


    Thest thing I thought before I became unconscious was that Kelly was the only one who seemed perfectly fine.


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    “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


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    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.<i>” </i>


    “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 hér 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


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    instead of using it on Chloe, she ran the de across the palm of her hand, staining the


    seemed to give <i>he</i>, nite skin with à 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 onest 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 lifee to this?


    *Author*


    As the bodyguards continued to dig up the dirt around the peach tree, Mrs. Windsor nervously nced back at the four unconscious bodies that were on her property.


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    “I’m, um, going to go check on them,” Chloe’s mom <b>said </b><b>with </b><b>anxiety </b>in her voice. “I want to make sure they are all <b>still </b>breathing.”


    Chloe rolled her eyes and crossed her arms tightly. “You’re <b>wasting </b>your time, Mom. They won’t be breathing for much longer.”


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