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”

door. “Those were just copies, you

think tearing them delays anything? We’ll

them digitally

He didn’t look back.

me not to

the hallway, heart

was too late. He was too

to have–where was it when Olivia was crying

lie

looked so worn?

Too damn late.

Ethan’s POV

sat on the stone steps outside the old cottage. The

I used to visit on full

felt simple. Now, everything

hollow.

But the rain in my palms–my hands were burning. My insides, on

played the

calm but distant. The wedding album in her hands trembled for only a second before she dropped it into the metal barrel. The flames flared instantly, swallowing years of memories. The photo where I kissed

Gone in

didn’t even

I replayed it again.

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

I deserved it.

line. I should’ve pulled away the moment

our sheets. But I didn’t. I

I was here–watching flames

I called Reed.

Olivia sold of

it?”

frame. Even if we need to track

“Understood.”

new wedding photo printed. Same

it exactly where it used to

“I’ll take care of

I hung up.

card transaction in Washington. No flight data, no hotel check–in,

her