Watch Me Win, Alpha

Chapter 189

“But on one condition,” she continued.

“Anything,” Ava promised. “I just want to know what happened to my cousin. People don’t just disappear without a trace.”

Kelly looked around and leaned forward, taking care to lower her voice. “Whatever I say stays in this room, understood?”

The four of us nodded.

Kelly blew out a long, shaky breath and rubbed her hands on her jeans After a while, she was ready to tell us her story. “In my junior year of high school, the day that our final exams ended, I ran into Chloe behind the mall. She had heard that Russell and I were dating and wanted him for herself.” Kelly’s jaw clenched. “She wasn’t even actually interested in him. Chloe just wanted Russell because I had him.”

Wow, that sounded familiar.

“Chloe had two guys from the football team with her. They were dumb as rocks and always did her bidding,” Kelly continued. “They forced me to come to Chloe’s house with them. There, Chloe wanted me to call Russell, and when I refused, the two guys…they took off my clothes.” Kelly’s voice was full of shame, and she dropped her gaze.

Ava gasped, and Richard’s hands clenched.

“That’s awful,” I muttered.

Kelly nodded. “After I was naked, I knew that Chloe wouldn’t stop, so I

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Russell. Kelly snatched the phone from my

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date with her. Chloe told him that she would let me go if he agreed. Rusell thought that this was all just a big practical joke. So he said he would never in a million years go out with

paused, and a dark look crossed

a glass of water?”

took her anger out on me. She took a pocketknife out and slowly cut up my

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Kelly’s story of Chloe’s cruelty made

consciousness, and the next thing I knew, I was laying in a gutter twenty miles away from Chloe’s house,” Kelly said in a quiet voice. “A jogger found me and brought me to the hospital. When I was admitted, I found out that

clapped a hand over my mouth in surprise. Chloe was more dangerous

could see that there were more tears in her eyes. “Every single day, I regret not reporting Chloe to the police. Maybe if I did, I

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us,” I said to Kelly. “Thank you for trusting us with that.” I turned to Ava. “Chloe must have