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

had left

on the same day, on the same highway, stopping

That was no coincidence.

half an hour, barely breathing,


I lay across the backseat. Through

fingers and the edge of the

him. The man hadn’t moved from his vehicle. He

waiting. Still. Too

that something was off. People didn’t

stops for that long without a reason.

wasn’t random–and Yve

inside me like a spring. Her low growl

but loud

I had

the police, what would I say? That

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


news again with another

adjusted the blindfold to shield my eyes from the sun, and started the car with feigned casualness. My

around the

the rearview mirror, I saw

did. Same distance.

as if he’d done this

I

onto the highway,

Each mile felt longer than the last. Every

he was there. Still.

into the city that I finally dared to exhale. Duskhollow

home. My safe

gripped the wheel


what happened next, I just needed to reach

garage.

the dusky gold light of the streetlamps started dotting the sky, I took a sharp right

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