Watch Me Win, Alpha

“Kelly’s parents divorced when she was very young,” he said and clasped his hands together. “Her mother remarried and moved away with her new husband, leaving Kelly in the care of her father. Then, her father passed away in a car accident two years after the divorce. After that, Kelly’s grandmother took care of her. She was like a mother to her. When her grandmother fell ill last year, Kelly helped take care of her, along with her aunt, until her grandma’s death last week.”

I didn’t talk for a long time after Alexander’s bombshell. My brain was buzzing because now I knew the reason that Kelly had gone off the deep end.

Because of her grandmother’s death last week–the only true parent that she had ever known–Kelly snapped. She was already a mentally unstable person, but the death of her closest loved one had driven her to become dangerous to herself and others. She reverted back to her high school self, and that was why she had become so obsessed with Russell. It was so that she didn’t have to think about the loss of her grandmother.

Sympathy for Kelly flowed through me. Maybe the young girl had even paid this Dorothy woman to be her grandmother so that Kelly could act like she was still alive. That thought made the hairs on the back of my neck stand.

“I bet that Kelly had planned on using us to kill Chloe from the beginning,” I said more to myself than to Alexander. I had always done my best thinking out loud. “Kelly wanted to get revenge against Chloe for killing Russell. And because Chloe is so arrogant, she was able to fall for Kelly’s innocent act, and that was how Kelly tricked her into thinking she was on her side.” I paused for a few moments. “Thank you

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Alexander,” I said gratefully.

information through village gossip.

and I leaned toward him. “I thought that you just said that you had your tech guy look into Kelly’s life after we met with her fake grandma,‘ I said with a

gaze from mine. It was nice to see him embarrassed for caring

have more information if you’re interested,”

that would help. In a situation as layered as Chloe’s life and the number of people

Alexander revealed. “Ever since they were born, the two were inseparable.” He paused for a fraction of a second before he continued. “The man that I had visited today was

and I leaned toward him,

locked onto mine, and his expression grew somber. “I really think that through this meeting,

lapsed into silence as all the information he just told me ran through

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