Watch Me Win, Alpha

Chapter 79

“The garage camera didn’t record her car,” the property manager, Mr. Greene, reported, voice grim. “But the gate

footage… it shows her Lexus–registration matches–entering at

08:47 PM exactly.”

“Then the car–her car–vanished from every camera inside the

community?” I asked, my tone flat.

He nodded. “Yes. But then last night, around 09:45 PM, we see a

Chevy leave the garage. License plate was obscured.”

“Someone tampered with the feed,” I said, turning to Gai. “Cross- reference all cameras for past fifty hours. Find anomalies: blind

frames, jump cuts, missing files.”

“Got it,” Gai replied crisply, tapping keys. “Also pulled the gate timestamp. Scanned for identical cars passing in and out other

entry points.”

–

I slid my phone to quit the call now there were police on site, sirens muted – and spoke into silence. “Signal staff to hold any

technicians on standby. No firmware resets. We need original

data. Freeze everything.”

The officer in charge, Detective Marquez, nodded gravely. “We’re already logging chain of custody for all drives and

DVRs”

“Good,” I said, forcing calm. “The longer we wait, the more

chance someone erases evidence”

Rustling footsteps alerted me to Ava approaching. Her face was

pale.

“Alexander,” she whispered, “they found something.”

“What did they find?”

A deer–in–headlights fear made her eyes flicker. “That same

Malibu… it shows it entering the gate

We examined the timestamp:

at 0:03 hours.”

ago. That’s exactly when Olivia

followed then too.”

the same car,” Gai said,

model and license plate of

night.”

took a step back. “So

about her movements,

This wasn’t random. This had

had been

Chapter 76

Marquez stepped forward, holding a portable

is the gate feed. I’ve

00:03 three days ago.

someone tried to delete the

times.

the back of my mind, chillingly aware: this

intimidation. Someone had been tracking

her

personal. Dangerous. With the

motion, secrets I’d hoped were

lethal.

Alexander’s POV

ominously as the surveillance replayed

figure, hat pulled low,

carrying a suitcase. He

onlookers. Seconds later, he exited, suitcase

tow, and vanished from view. That was the first

saw him.

it on his face,”

the blurry image. His build

but his

familiar.

my suggestion, the security techs reviewed earlier days.

the

at one apartment. We tracked him to a sleek

the basement.

license plate

“You heard about that

to Bella’s apartment? I believe we

suspect.”

Marquez, her voice