Watch Me Win, Alpha

Chapter 1

May 8, 2023, my Alpha Mate, Ethan Hawthorne brought his mistress to our pack, and I decided to deceive him into divoring me.

Standing in front of his office, I took a deep breath, knocked on and stepped inside.

The polished wood door swung closed behind me with a soft click.

I clutched the file in my hands, forcing a mechanical smile to my lips as I approached his desk. Ethan didn’t glance up. His focus remained on the laptop screen.

“Are you busy?” I asked, my voice even, polite.

He looked up, his gray eyes meeting mine without any flicker of warmth.

“A bit,” he said, voice low and rough. He leaned back in his chair. I placed the folder on his desk, already flipping to the marked pages where his signature was needed.

“Just a few spots to sign.”

Without reading, he picked up the pen lying next to his laptop and began to sign, page after page, his hand moving automatically, his gaze occasionally drifting back to his screen.

I watched silently. Ethan looked… worn out. His usually sharp grey eyes were dull, and there were deep shadows un- der them. He had just come back from London after two weeks at the Annual Alpha Conference – a gathering of pack leaders across the globe.

But he hadn’t come back alone.

My wolf Yve stirred uneasily inside me. ‘He reeks of her.’ I pushed her down gently. There was no point in flaring up.Not when the papers he had just signed held the ending we both needed.

When he was finished, he clicked the pen closed and slid it across the table toward me.

“Thanks,” I said, sliding the documents back into my folder.

I paused, hesitated, then asked, “Will you be home for dinner tonight?”

Predictably, Ethan shook his head. “Got some things to wrap up here. Don’t wait.”

I nodded, plastering the same empty smile across my face. “Got it. See you around, Alpha,” I said, forcing my voice to sound like any other obedient wolf under his rule-not like the Luna and fated mate he seemed to have regretted

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toward the door. The air shifted slightly when I passed the annex lounge, and

without thinking, my enhanced senses sharpening the image beyond what human

on the low glass table. A lipstick-smeared coffee cup beside it. And near the plush lounge chair, a black high-heeled

sound more a vibration across my bones than a true noise. He brought her here. Here. Not just to London. To our den. Our

My throat tightened painfully.

heavy, like something was sitting right on top of it as I turned on my heel and head back, away from this awful place that made

me hard. I dropped into my chair, not

out the divorce agreement from the lowest drawer-the very

over his

Firm. Bold. Unwavering.

Ethan had been so firm, so sure. He looked at me like I was his whole world.

exactly who it belonged to. I’m

brush of his lips against the

blankly at the ceiling. I could almost hear Ethan’s mother Amelia’s voice again- calm,

lips. “You were always spot on, Amelia,”

I had been wrong. So, so

only had Ethan cheated, but he had taken his mistress to

deserve better’,

‘We do’, I agreed.

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photo of the signed divorce agreement, and attached it to

new message.

Amelia HawthroneSubject: Agreement CompleteMessage: Ethan has signed,

send without

me in private. If I agreed to file for divorce quietly, without confronting Ethan or exposing the affair

of packs and politics, image was everything. An Alpha embroiled in a public scandal would

had left me, I

tacle.

I had my dignity.

– the grace period to finalize everything – Ethan

out a slow breath, settling into my chair. That’s when a knock came

“Come in,” I said.

beta, Reed stepped inside, carrying a small, elegant box in

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me to deliver this to you. He bought it for you