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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on my arms stand. Fear clawed up my throat as I thought about my family’s safety and

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

leaned into her comforting touch, and my heart rate

doorbell rang, making me jump about

to stare at me with panic in

of, too,” I whispered back. “Who would be at the

electric oven, not gas,” Ava joked, but her voice

in the hallway,” I suggested.

Ava nodded in agreement.

as we went to another room, my stomach dropped to the ground, and I let out a

is at the door will hear us,”

said and pointed in the direction

when a large gust of cold wind blew through

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my whole body shiver. Ava’s white curtains were billowing because the glass

before you left your apartment,” I asked hopefully as my stomach stiffened with

could see the panic that was flowing through

clearly remember closing the doors and locking them,”

is the house,” I murmured as

doorbell rang once more. Then, someone began to