Samuel looked down at his hands. Still trembling. But now—now they felt empty.
Samuel stood at the edge of the infinity pool, the blue light casting his shadow long and crooked across the wet marble. Below him, the lights of the valley flickered like a thousand tiny lies. Someone’s expensive speaker was still playing a thrumming reggaeton beat from inside the villa, but the terrace was empty now—except for the boy floating face-down in the deep end.
Their eyes met for one terrible second. Then the boy’s arms windmilled. And he fell.
Samuel opened his mouth. I didn’t mean it. It was an accident. He pushed first. Elite.S05E01.I.Killed.Him.NF.WEB-DL.AAC.x264-Ve...
She looked at the pool. Then back at Samuel.
I killed him.
Samuel turned. It was Carla’s younger sister—the one who never spoke at parties. The one who saw everything. Samuel looked down at his hands
“Now help me clean up,” she said. “Before the real monsters wake up.”
The water barely splashed.
She slipped off her heels, stepped to the edge of the pool, and crouched down. With one elegant finger, she pushed the floating boy’s shoulder, sending him drifting toward the deep end’s filter intake. Samuel stood at the edge of the infinity
Twenty minutes earlier, the argument had been about a necklace. A cheap silver chain that meant nothing to anyone except the girl who had given it to him—and the dead boy who had stolen it. Samuel had grabbed him by the collar of his linen shirt. The boy had laughed, shoved back, harder. Samuel’s heel slipped on a patch of wet tile near the shallow end. His hand shot out—not to push, but to balance. But the boy was already off-balance, already too close to the edge, already drunk on mezcal and arrogance.
“No,” she said quietly, pocketing the phone. “ We killed him. You just did the last part.”
And now, Samuel heard footsteps behind him. Heels on marble. A girl’s voice, smoky and bored: “There you are. Did he leave? I need my necklace back.”
But the boy didn’t move. His white shirt bloomed around him like a jellyfish. His open eyes stared into the underwater lights.