NovelEnglishBut just before | stepped off the yard, | heard the thud of footsteps running after us and my stomach sank.
Alexander wasn’t done with his mind games yet.
“Wait, Olivia! | need to talk to you,” he called.
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| turned around because | knew that running away from him would seem childish.
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intensity u seemed like he was trying to read my mind.
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“You're going to her uncle's house?” he asked and nodded, and Kelly, who was slowly edging away from the
group, her eyes on Alexander. She seemed weary of him.
“Yes...” | answered, having a bad feeling about what was coming next.
“I'm free for the rest of the day, so why don’t I join you,” Alexander said in a casual tone, but his eyes were
calculating.
He stood next toand gestured for us to keep walking.
| wanted to argue that he hadn't been invited along, but | knew that the sun would go down soon, and we really
didn’t have tfor Alexander andto fight right now. We needed to get going.
“Wait here and tell everyone that I'll be back for a late dinner,” Alexander told Gai./
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She nodded, wished us luck, and then went inside.
As the six of us continued along the riverbank, Kelly gestured for Ava andto walk beside her.
“Does this new guy know about...what happened to me, Chloe and Russell?” she whispered. “I don’t know if I'm
comfortable with him coming along. | think the fewer people that know about what happened to me, the safer it
is for everyone.”
“No, he doesn’t know anything,” Ava assured her. “And if he gets a little too curious, we can tell him to get lost.”
This seemed to comfort Kelly for now.
| turned back and noticed that Alexander had a secret smi as if he knew we were talking about him.
s face
Kelly took the lead again as we walked down the damp grass next to the river.
Somehow, Alexander managed to walk beside me, making it hard forto form a coherent thought. He kept his
arm right next to mine, and every so often, our skin would brush and send an electric shock throughout my body.
“I'm just going to squeeze in here,” Aiden said, trying to get in between Alexander and me.
But Ava roughly pulled her brother back by his wrist. “You failed to protect us from that dog even though it was
your one job,” she scolded. “As your punishment, you have to walk beside your annoying big sister and not my
pretty best friend.”
| turned around and noticed that Ava was smiling at her brother with amusement.
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“Yeah, kid. You want to stay out of what's ever going on between those two,” Richard whispered, his deep voice
carrying along the riverbank “You would never win in a fight against Alexander I'm trained in five different
martial arts, and | don’t think I could,”
Aiden and Robert started bickering about who would win in a fight: Alexander or Aiden.
It was obvious that they thought we couldn’t hear them, but we all could.
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“Who would you want to win in a fight?” He murmured,
teasing, but there was an edge of anger. or the kid?”
| wasn’t going to fall for a trap like that. | just pretended not to hear his
question and sped up to walk beside Kelly.
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An older woman who Kelly resembled walked down the pathway with the help of a cane.
“Kelly! | didn’t know you were coming by today,” she said and brought the younger girl into a tight hug.
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“I was in the village with some...friends. And | wanted to stop by and say hi,” Kelly explained. “Hope that’s
alright, Gran.”
“Of course, cin,” Kelly’s grandmother said and smiled at us warmly.
The inside was just as cluttered as the outside, but at least the living room had enough seats for the seven of us.
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