Watch Me Win, Alpha

Chapter 78

Chapter 77

Instead, I calmly stepped back into my car and shut the door

gently. I pressed the lock button.Click.

I pulled my blindfold from the glove box and leaned the seat back. Carefully, I draped the blindfold across my face but left a

sliver at the bottom so I could watch.

And I did.

He was still there–smoking, murmuring into the phone. His

posture was relaxed, but the tension in his eyes gave him away.

They kept sliding toward me, as if checking whether I was still

inside or had disappeared.

I remained motionless. Breathing shallow. Observing.

Eventually, he ended the call and walked to his car–an older

model with plates I didn’t recognize. He sat in the driver’s seat,

reclined casually, and sipped from a paper cup.


And he didn’t leave.

He didn’t drive away.

He justsat there. In the vehicle directly across from mine. No

rush. No urgency. Just lingering.

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It wasn’t the only thing bothering me.

Three days ago, when I had left New York in the dead of night. I had noticed a car–same make, same dull gray–behind me for longer than felt reasonable. I had chalked it up to paranoia.

Stress.

Now I was

that both of us had left the city at

now returning on the same day, on the same highway, stopping at the same

That was no coincidence.

stayed still for half an hour, barely breathing, muscles


tension as I lay across the

the edge

moved from his vehicle. He

Still.

now that something was

stops for that long without a reason. My

wasn’t random–and Yve was alert

inside me like a spring. Her low

else, but loud

I had no

if I called the police, what would I say? That a man

Chapter

legally at a rest stop and happened to glance in my direction more than once? They’d laugh me off. Or worse- report it.


news again

slowly, adjusted the blindfold to shield my eyes from the sun, and started the

the

mirror, I saw the man’s car pull

Same distance. Same rhythm. Not

as if he’d done this

I was

the highway, heart

Each mile felt longer than the last. Every time I glanced

he was there.

into

home. My safe

gripped the


matter what happened next, I

garage.

dotting the sky, I took

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