Watch Me Win, Alpha

Chapter 146

“This is where it gets stranger,” Ava said and crossed her legs. “From what I found out, the mother got really obsessed with finding her son. She quit her job, cut off all her friends, and went into debt, hiring a bunch of private investigators. She barely ate or slept. The only thing she cared about was finding her son.”

“That poor woman.”

“I know, it’s awful,” Ava agreed. “So, eye witnesses claim to have seen the boy’s mother make a few trips to the Windsor family home. Two weeks after that, she died from a gas explosion. Her ex–husband had been in the house too, and they both died on impact from the explosion.”

My blood turned to ice. “Are you serious? That can’t be a coincidence!”

“I agree, but I’ll have a hell of a time proving that it wasn’t,” she said and sighed.

We were quiet for a moment, and then I told Ava about how Ethan asked me to write a letter of understanding for Chole. My friend’s eyes widened as I detailed my ex–husband’s threats to my family and how he had locked me in that private room.

“He is such an asshole,” Ava muttered after I was finished.

“You’re telling me,” I said and grabbed a throw blanket to cover me since this whole eerie situation was making me colder by the second.

Ethan’s threats today, along with the bizarre way that the boy’s parents

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Fear clawed up my throat as I thought about

around me. “I’m so sorry that Ethan did that to you,” she said with anger

into her comforting touch, and my heart rate

jump about five feet

stare at me with panic in her eyes. “The

would be at the door this late

not gas,” Ava joked, but her voice was shaking

hallway,” I suggested. “So, they can‘ t hear

Ava nodded in agreement.

room, my stomach dropped to the ground, and I let

quiet, or whoever is at the door will hear us,” Ava

and pointed in

large gust of

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shiver. Ava’s white curtains were billowing because the glass doors of her balcony had been thrown

forget to close your doors before you left your apartment,” I asked hopefully as my

my eyes, and I could see the panic that was flowing through me

closing the doors and locking them,”

is the house,” I murmured as my heart slammed against my rib

once more. Then, someone began