Filed to story: Watch Me Win Alpha (Olivia & Ethan)
“Alright,” I said, quieter than I intended.
Alexander didn’t push the conversation further. He simply called Mike and said, “Prepare a guest room. She’ll be staying with us until further notice.”
Then he helped me pack up a few essentials and even carried me upstairs again. I didn’t protest this time. I was too exhausted.
That night, I slept better than I had in days. The penthouse was quiet, with thick walls and blackout curtains that made it feel like the outside world had been shut out. No ringing phone, no
Ethan’s voice in my ears, no drama.
But peace is always temporary in my life.
Just as the first light slipped through the curtains and I was still curled under a warm blanket, my phone buzzed angrily on the nightstand. I groaned, blindly reaching for it.
Chaptea 56
Rose’s name flashed on the screen.
I answered with a sleepy, “Hmm?”
“Olivia!” Rose’s voice was shrill. “Get up. Now. Check your
Twitter feed-immediately!”
Olivia’s POV
When I opened my feed on Twitter, I didn’t expect to see my own face staring back at me–mid-slap.
Well, more accurately, my hand was in motion, Chole was on her knees, and the sound of that sharp contact echoed through the poorly edited video. Except Ethan was completely gone from the frame. Cropped out like he didn’t even exist. As if the entire airport incident had just been me and Chole-no furious husband, no security chaos, no aftermath.
The caption read:”Hawthrone Luna stands up to shameless mistress. #LunaRights #JusticeForWife””
There were hundreds of retweets, and bizarrely… people were supporting me.
“What… the hell?” I muttered, scrolling through the comments.
“Finally a Luna who defends herself!”
“Chole deserves it. Homewreckers should stay in the ditch they came from.”
“Olivia Hawthrone is still the rightful Luna.”
I blinked at the screen. Was I still half-asleep?
I called Rose immediately.
“Rose, what is all this?” I asked as soon as she picked up.
“This is why I woke you up early. Even I wanted to know how this video came across social media.” She sounded like she had popcorn in hand.
“When was this uploaded?”
“I don’t know exactly. It’s been making the rounds since 6 AM.
My cousin sent it to me with a heart emoji.
“Who could have done this?”
Rose hesitated. “Do you think this was Alexander’s doing? Or… you didn’t post this, did you?”
“Me?” I scoffed. “Rose, I don’t have that kind of editing skill. And
I know for a fact Alexander doesn’t have time to meddle into this scenario. He already saw enough last night.”
“Wait. What happened last night?”
“Ah! Ethan showed up at my floor, drunk. Alpha Alexander was dropping me by my apartment at that time and Ethan started ranting same old thing.” I told Rose, a little embarrassed.
“What? Ethan surely is a leech.” Rose said with a disgust. “Actually, I thought it were you who uploaded it.”
“No way! I am not interested in such publicity,” I sighed. “But who the hell could have posted it?”
“No idea. But it’s working in your favor!”
After that I hung up the call with Rose. She didn’t know who did it.
Still unsatisfied, I called Ava. She answered after three rings.
“Olivia, I was just gonna call you,” she asked, hurried. “Are you okay?”
“Yes, but I didn’t post the video,” I said flatly. “Neither did Rose.
And apparently, not Alexander either.”
“I know. I know you that much.” Ava yawned. “It looked like a work of a professional. They made it trending everywhere, and the editing was kind of… convenient.”
“My point exactly.”
Chapte
“You think Chole did it?”
“I don’t know. I considered Amelia at first, trying to clean
Ethan’s name. But this paints Ethan as absent. If anything, it builds my public sympathy as the Luna and isolates Chole as the villain.”
Ava paused. “You really think Chole would post a video of herself getting slapped just to… gain sympathy?”
“If it ends with her in a hospital bed, maybe. You know how she plays the victim. The more pathetic she looks, the more she clings to Ethan.”
“She’s insane if she did,” Ava muttered. “Like, genuinely needs help!”
“No disagreement here.”
There was a brief silence before I added, “By the way, Ethan bought an apartment in my building. Two floors above.”‘
“What?”
“Yeah. I found out last night. The property manager said it was recent. He’s been hanging around. Got drunk and caused a scene.”
Ava’s voice went sharp. “So now he’s living two floors above you and pulling drunken tantrums? Has he lost it?”
“Looks like it.”
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