Watch Me Win, Alpha

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

of us had left

day, on the same highway, stopping

That was no coincidence.

stayed still for half an hour, barely breathing,

lay across the backseat.

fingers and the edge of the blindfold, I

The man hadn’t moved from his

Still.

knew now that something was off. People

that long without

random–and Yve was

Her low growl

else, but

had

if I called the police, what

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happened to glance in my direction more than once? They’d laugh me off. Or worse- report it. And the last thing I needed right now was to

again

from the sun, and started

around the

rearview mirror, I saw the man’s

Same distance.

as if he’d

I was

the highway, heart thudding

the last. Every time I glanced

rearview, he was there.

the sign that welcomed me back into the city that I finally

home. My safe

gripped the wheel

I just

garage.

streetlamps started dotting the sky, I took a sharp right

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