Watch Me Win, Alpha

I stared at him, stunned.

“I love Olivia,” he whispered. “I still love her. Very much.”

Ava’s POV

I thought I had him figured out. The cold–hearted Alpha who

tossed aside a loyal woman like Olivia for a bitch and a

convenient affair. But today… he surprised me.

“I love her,” he’d said with those pathetic eyes, clinging to the

last string of hope like a child begging for his mother not to

leave him behind.

I crossed my arms and scoffed. “Then explain Chole. Was that

love too? Or just a convenient way to pass time while Olivia

worked her ass off to build your future?”

Ethan stood up slowly, gripping the torn divorce papers like

they were a badge of honor instead of proof of his failure. His

voice had a strange calm to it now–almost dangerous.

“I’m going to buy back everything she sold. Every dress, every

book, every stupid mug if I have to. I’ll repaint the walls if she

scratched them in anger. I’ll find the photos she burned. And if I

can’t, I’ll print them again.”

“You’re insane,” I snapped. “That’s not love. That’s delusion.”

“She’ll be my Luna again,” he said quietly, like it was already

written in the stars. “For the rest of her life”

the door. “Those were just copies, you

them delays anything?

I’ll send them digitally if

He didn’t look back.

everything in me not to slam the door on his

stood in the hallway,

He was too

when

bed? When she had to lie to her parents about

looked so worn?

Too damn late.

Ethan’s POV

outside the old cottage.

to visit on full

felt

hollow.

down my face, cold and sharp. But the rain in my palms–my

played the footage on

trembled for only a second before she dropped it into the metal barrel. The flames flared instantly, swallowing years of

mark. Gone in seconds.

didn’t even

I replayed it again.

in days. Not a growl. Not a whisper. Nothing. It was like he’d gone dormant, disgusted with the shell I’d become after

I deserved it.

crossed the line. I should’ve pulled away the moment

our sheets. But I didn’t. I ignored every

now, I was here–watching flames

I called Reed.

sold of her back,” I

of it?” he

Even if we need to track down collectors or dig through

“Understood.”

new wedding photo printed.

Hang it exactly where it used to

“I’ll take

I hung up.

data, no hotel

hid her