Watch Me Win, Alpha

“Is Alexander with you?” I hurriedly asked.

Gai snorted. “No, he was supposed to come, but I found him asleep in his office. Wake him up for me, will you?”

My stomach jolted. “Gai, I don’t…”

“He has a bunch of work to do today,” she said. “I have to go. Wake him up, Olivia. That’s an order, not a request.”

Nervously, I tucked my hair behind my ears as I recalled the last time I had woken up Alexander in Washington. But I didn’t really have a choice. I guess waking up my boss was a part of my job.

Slowly, I turned the doorknob of his office and crept inside.

Alexander’s head was resting on his folded arms, propped up by his desk. He had giant black headphones covering his ears, like he didn’t want to be disturbed. That just made my stomach stiffen with anxiety, but I couldn’t back out now.

Gently, I moved one of his headphones to the side and exposed his ear.

“Alexander,” I said in a loud voice that rang throughout his office. “You need to wake up. You’re still at work.”

He didn’t even move an inch. I tried to wake him up by shaking his shoulder and practically shouting in his ear, but he just wouldn’t wake

up.

he pretending to be asleep?

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Honestly, he probably would.

glanced over at a table in the corner of the room and saw the red tie Alexander had been wearing this morning strewn over it. He must have taken it off before his afternoon nap. The color gold glinted at me from the tie clip on the back of it. Maybe I could wake him up by poking him with the sharp

fired for pulling a stunt

the rest of the workday, I

bit my lip as I considered

Oh, what the hell?

up the tie and detached the clip from it. As I stood there, I ruled out the areas covered by his clothing like his arms and legs. Finally,

and took his warm hand in mine. Gently, I lifted his pointer finger and

tip of the needle until it was almost touching his

when I was rethinking my decision to do this, Alexander’s

my forehead as Alexander’s hand twitched in mine. Determination

to him. “My grandma used to

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