Watch Me Win, Alpha

Chapter 147

In the dark, we stumbled toward the living room. I almost tripped over a large vase in the corner of the room, and Ava bumped into a side table, jostling a lamp, but she managed to catch it before it crashed to the floor.

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Finally, we made it to our purses. Quickly, Ava made the call to the police and put her phone on speaker so that I could hear it.

“Yes, please send over someone as quickly as possible,” Ava said after she quickly explained the situation. “The knocking on my door is becoming so loud, I can barely even hear you and…” She paused and swallowed, but she rolled her shoulders back, trying to remain brave. “And I think there might be someone in the house.”

The pounding on the door was becoming so loud that I could barely hear myself think. Whoever was trying to get in alternated between knocking and ranging the doorbell repeatedly.

“I’m sending someone over to your location right now,” the operator assured us. “Go to a room that you can lock and stay there to wait for the officers to get to you. If you have any weapons to protect yourselves, bring them with you.”

Her last sentence made a jolt go through me. The room spun. This whole thing was all happening too fast.

After Ava hung up, she grabbed my hand and dragged me to her bedroom. She locked the door and used the light from her cell phone to look around the room. I shook my head to clear it. I couldn’t afford to go into shock right now. I had to help Ava. As I got my phone out of my purse, we heard a noise coming from the other room.

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the unmistakable sound of

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gaze met mine. “They’re inside!” she whispered, her voice

bathroom that was connected to the room. We shut the door and locked it. The fact that there were now two locked doors between us and the intruder made my shoulders relax

a moment of eerie silence,

is it?” I

has a key to open the door, that means that they can get into my bedroom and the bathroom,” she quickly

dropped. “So, we’re

Ava nodded.

of the bathroom, through her bedroom, and back out into the hallway. It wasn’t smart to be cornered by the

that?” Ava whispered as we crept along the

walking and listened

was a small creaking sound. The door to the balcony was slowly being opened, and a man’s face came into

other as we screamed at the top of our lungs. We were almost loud enough to crack the glass.