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“Typical, even drugged out of your mind, you have to have the last catty word” She strode toward Rachel, put her hands under her ared her to her feet “I a to show the world that you’re better than me, I actually enjoyed your company”

“What are you doing?” Rachel said as Saed her toward the pool

“What I should have done the first tiain Poor Rachel, she got drunk and fell in her pool Her cousin, Samantha, tried to save her, but it was too late It’s such a tragedy” Her smile was vicious “But don’t worry; I’ll console Harvard in his grief”

And then she ju Rachel with her

Chapter Thirty-Three

Cold water rushed over Rachel’s head as she sank beneath the surface The shock of it threw her situation into stark relief The cousin she’d thought cared about her was trying to kill her And she ht just succeed

Gathering what little strength she had, she kicked upward Her only hope was to break away fro rendered her helpless

Again

As her fingers broke the surface of the water, a hand clasped her ankle and pulled her back down into the deep center of the pool She forced her eyes open, to see Sa maniacally as the skirt of her dress billowed in the water around her It was as if Rachel was looking at a strange underwater fashion shoot Her cousin’s beauty and the surrealness of the situation ht caiven wasit difficult to think clearly

She had to escape before she couldn’t think at all

A rush of pure adrenaline coursed through her and, with herculean effort, she punched and fought and kicked until the hold on her ankle loosened Lungs burning, she swa her down and her shoes long gone

Hope surged through her as air hit her face, only for it to be dashed as hands clasped her shoulders and pulled her back under She’d barely had tiain, with Sa her down

She tried to twist out of her cousin’s grasp, but the drug slowed her oing to die in that pool In the water she stared at every night Even if she got out of there alive, she’d never be able to look at the pool again It was oneher cousin had stolen from her

Which made her furious

And rage gave her a renewed burst of strength Desperate, she kicked out, catching her cousin’s thigh and sending her toward the bottoave her a few seconds to escape Rachel didn’t hesitate She clawed her way through the water, scraers clutched the tile, harsh hands shoved her face into the hard edge of the pool