Re: Dream: Jude/Alexander
That wasn't your mistake. [Alexander fed Chloe and starved her in equal turns. Sometimes that was what their sister needed to find some sort of balance within herself, before she grew too heavy with gloating and self-approval.] If any, it was timing the attack so close to that outburst on the journals. That girl could never stay away from our sister and if Chloe was posting, she was going to be in there.
[At the mention of being back in Vegas, Alexander shook his head, just briefly, his eyebrows pinching together.] You don't -- [Could he deliver the lie to his brother now? He had told Chloe that he missed Jude, that the days without his brother's machinating presence was as sorely missed as hers would be if she was gone. Yet, it wasn't quite like missing Eloise, and that was a pain that was getting buried deeper and deeper as the days went past. No, he had to give Jude this lie. If only so he would give it to Clementine and peace could be assured, at least for a time.]
No, brother mine. Chloe and I died in Vegas. Do you think she would have survived jail if Clementine had gone to the police as she said she would? [He gave another little shake of his head, his gaze meeting his brother's.]