Watch Me Win, Alpha

1 locked eyes with Ava, and her surprise mirrored mine.

The recording ended abruptly with the sound of stomping feet.

“Is that Ethan storming away from Chloe?” I asked.

“I assume so. Isn’t it strange how rude and disgusted he seems towards his former mistress and future bride?”

I nodded in agreement.

“There’s something else the device caught too,” Ava said as her thumbs moved over her phone screen. “It’s from a conversation that Chloe had with her future mother–in–law, Amelia.”

“Ethan’s mother,” I said in a low voice. “My former mother–in–law.”

Ava squeezed my shoulder. “Yes. It’s from after a dinner at the Hawthorne estate. Amelia and Chloe seem to be having a conversation in the garden.”

I nodded for her to play the recording.

“Please, can you just speak to your son,” Chloe’s voice said through the phone speakers. Her tone was full of anguish. “He’s been so cruel to me lately. I just love him so much. Why can’t he be kind to me?”

“I will not speak to him,” Amelia replied. Her cold voice sent a shiver through my body. It was an indifferent tone I knew all too well. “You don’t have to marry my son if you don’t like the way he treats you.”

“I’ll tell people what I know if you push me too far, Amelia,” Chloe

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fast? “I know about all the shady things that go on in the Hawthorne family. I know that your husband has a mistress overseas and that he has an illegitimate nineteen–year–old child who will jump at the chance to move here and compete with Ethan to inherit the Hawthorne fortune. If that happens, your place in this family will be jeopardized. Your luxurious life

mouth dropped open

How dare you threaten me like that! I knew that you were an evil bitch when you stole my son away from Olivia. You will be the downfall of my son.

sticking up for me. I always thought

of your son if you don’t help me!”

countered.

that you are only using it to

*Olivia*

me,” Chloe’s voice said from the recording. Her tone was full of malice and made the hair on the back of my neck raise.

other things do you think

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girl?” Ameila asked.

a slight tremor

the least,” Chloe said, and even though I couldn’t see her face, I knew that

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gasped. “What kind of

the older