Watch Me Win, Alpha

Chapter 169

“I promise never to cause you unneeded stress again,” Alexander continued in that rough, low voice of his. “I know that your life is already stressful enough without me adding to it.” He swallowed, and I watched his throat bob up and down, mesmerized by that simple action. “I don’t want to be the reason you worry, Olivia. I want to bring you peace.”

A quiet gasp escaped my lips, and my legs trembled. His words sent a shiver up my spine. What was he saying? Why did this sound like the beginning of a confession?

Alexander let out a long, slow breath and tore his eyes away from me as he looked up at the ceiling. “I want you to know that I will never force you to do anything.”

“I know that, Alexander,” I assured him in an unsteady voice, wondering where he was going with this.

He looked back down at me when I said his name. Then, he took a step away from me, and my body protested at the loss of the heat that always radiated off of him. His expression changed until it was unreadable.

“What do you say that we put all the previous…unpleasantness behind us and pretend like it never happened?” he suggested, and a tight- lipped smile crossed his face.

“That sounds good,” I said quickly.

couldn’t help but think that Alexander had that conversation with me because he was going on

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set clear boundaries in our relationship? Because if we were being honest with ourselves, we had both

giving me busy work. He had only asked me to work late just so he could talk to me alone. Whatever. At least I would

on the romantic

kept flashing at Alexander. Without meaning to, I crumpled the corner of an important document. My stomach swooped when I looked at the damage, and I glanced up at

in my lap.

Thankfully, Gai offered to drive me home because I didn’t want to accept a ride from Alexander. He didn’t even

I searched my medicine cabinet for stomach pills, but I didn’t have any. I tried to just go to sleep, but it felt like my stomach was

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