Watch Me Win, Alpha

Chapter 20

I kicked the door open.

The wooden frame splintered against the force, the men inside scrambling like rats caught under sudden light. One of them screamed. Another dropped the syringe in his hand.

“Down!” I barked.

My bodyguards charged in, dragging the rogues down and pinning them against the floor. No hesitation, no mercy. I wanted them all on the floor before they could blink. My eyes scanned the room-filthy, humid, reeking of sweat and wolfsbane. A low growl rattled in my chest.

Then I saw her.

Olivia.

Unclothed. Hands tied to the bed. Pale, bleeding at the lip. Eyes clenched shut like she was waiting to die.

“Manager,” I snapped. “Cover her. Now.”

Without hesitation, he tore off his jacket and rushed to Olivia’s side, draping it over her. She was still tied to the bed, motionless, her skin pale and bruised. He struggled briefly with the knots, then freed her wrists with shaking hands.

I stood at the doorway, watching silently, jaw clenched. Her skin looked ice-cold from where I was. Her pulse-faint, but there.

The manager stepped away from her and turned to me.

“She okay?” I asked, still not stepping forward.

He nodded shakily. “Y-yes, Alpha. We were just in time… she’s alive, but terrified.”

I gave him a single nod. “Go. Call a vehicle. Make sure there’s hospital clearance.”

He rushed out.

I stayed there for a beat, staring at the floor, listening to the chaos fade in the hallway. Something tugged at me. A weight in my chest. I didn’t like it.

I turned back.

She hadn’t moved.

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Olivia lay curled under the manager’s jacket, trembling.

Quietly, I stepped into the room.

I crouched beside her and, without thinking, brushed her cheek with my fingertips.

She flinched-not from me, but as if even touch now carried pain. Then, suddenly, she leaned into it. Her cheek press- ing lightly against my palm, as if my hand was the only warm thing in the world.

My wolf Heath stirred.

“She’s the one,” he rumbled inside me, tail wagging like a damn puppy.

“Now’s not the time,” I said sharply. “Shut up.”

away,

they locked on

shifted. I didn’t know what, but it

couldn’t. I said nothing. Just rested my other

muttered. “No one will

offer. I wasn’t good with comfort. I didn’t coddle. But the way her eyes welled up and her lips quivered-she didn’t need comfort. She needed

I was

a sound at first-then louder, choking, painful sobs.

arms. Jacket still wrapped around her, I walked out through the service exit, ignoring the

car, she wouldn’t

not to let her fall apart entirely. Tissues piled on the seat beside us. Mike

drained. Her head against

not

like Lilies,” he

with that?” I shot

I didn’t

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face tilted and pressed into the side of my neck. My jaw tensed. I held

I said to Heath

my head,

“Shut up.”

adjusted her gently and pressed her head back

door. I stepped out and handed her over. One nurse held her steady

okay, right?” I asked, not looking

the nurse

a curt nod and stood by as they wheeled

Olivia’s POV

but not restrained. For a

sleeves rolled up to the

stirred inside me-weak but conscious-and her voice rang

cleared my throat, but it came out dry and

head snapped

a while. “Do you

then whispered,

gaze didn’t

looking away. “I wasn’t completely

spoke again. “There’s good

said, my

news is… they didn’t touch you. You were

faintly, blinking

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who arranged it wasn’t a

hand clenched the blanket tightly. “I

pity, but with something harder to read-maybe restraint. “We have all of them in custody. You can

to sit up

gave a soft,