Watch Me Win, Alpha

Chapter 210

His reaction made my head tilt. I put my water glass back down.

“What’s wrong?” I immediately regretted my question as soon as it was out of my mouth.

“I’m frustrated with myself,” he admitted and put down his fork and knife. “I shouldn’t have tried to kiss you. I know that it was wrong, but I did it anyway. I’m selfish.”

My eyes widened. I couldn’t believe that he was being so candid with me. “You’re not selfish, Alexander. I mean, it’s not entirely your fault because I’m sure that…I’ve been giving you mixed signals.” My cheeks heated, “Honestly, you’re a much more decent person than 99% of the male population.”

I was hoping that my joking would snap him out of his bad mood, but it didn’t do the trick.

Alexander shrugged. “I think that the person I’m interested in doesn’t share the same interest in me.” He sighed again. “And I think that’s because they think I’m selfish.”

I opened my mouth, but I wasn’t sure how to respond. I had no idea who he was talking about. Also, he had used the gender neutral term ‘they‘ so he could even be talking about a guy, and I would never know.

For the rest of the dinner, we ate in silence. Mostly, I pushed around the food on my plate because my stomach was too full of nerves to eat.

should go,” I said after we finished our strange dinner. “A… will be

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that she had planned to

me from his eyelashes, something that would usually make any girl putty in his

beyond annoyed by

you get Gai to keep you

feisty tonight. I like

and he came to my side. “Why don’t I walk you back to your room?” he suggested and put his

stomach swooped and stepped away from him. “T m perfectly capable of

away from him before he

for the doorknob, someone knocked on the door. I

into the living room where I would be out of sight from the

he whispered to me

through me. Who was

it’s ! the door,” he said. “How much money do you want to wager