Filed to story: Watch Me Win Alpha (Olivia & Ethan)
Ava exhaled slowly, as if trying to keep her own temper in check. “Olivia, what does he even want anymore? What are his true intentions?”
Author’s POV
Ethan was in the backseat of his car when the call came through from Windsor House. The voice on the other end was frantic-one of the maids, breathless and on the verge of sobbing.
“Alpha Ethan, it’s Chole… she-she tried to kill herself. Her wrists-there’s blood everywhere. She has been sent to the hospital already. Please come immediately!”
For a moment, Ethan couldn’t move. He sat there in stunned silence, the phone trembling against his cheek.
Chole?
The words barely registered.
He ended the call and checked his phone, which had several messages from his Beta to check the Twitter feed.
The video was still everywhere. Olivia slapping Chole. The caption spinning it as a dramatic, justified defense by a cheated wife. The comments vilifying Chole as a mistress, a snake, a homewrecker who got what she deserved. And nowhere- absolutely nowhere was Ethan mentioned.
Back at the Hawthrone Pack house, the atmosphere was charged with a different kind of chaos.
Bob Hawthrone, Ethan’s father and the true backbone of the family, had returned from an urgent business trip overseas after getting wind of the scandal. The moment he stepped into the drawing room, his face was like thunder.
“This is what you’ve done with my name?” he growled, eyes blazing at Ethan. “You disgrace your Luna in public, humiliate your pack, and now I return to find your mistress splashed all over the internet like a failed soap opera?”
Ethan didn’t speak.
“I trusted you to lead with strength and intelligence, and instead, you’ve let your emotions and bedroom play destroy everything.”
Amelia, sitting on the edge of the leather sofa, spoke up quietly.
“Bob, don’t be so hard on him. He just-“
“Don’t.” Bob cut her off. “Don’t defend this circus. Olivia stood by us through every winter, every harvest, every negotiation.
She’s ten times the Chole Windsor could ever be.”
Amelia’s lips lightened.
“She’s cold” she said. ‘Olivia has always been… distant. Maybe it’s not all Ethan’s fault”
Bob gave her a sharp glance. “I’m telling you-if we still want to keep what we’ve built, Ethan needs to fix this. End things with
Chole. Go make peace with Olivia.”
Amelia was about to argue further when her phone rang.
Unknown number.
She stepped away to take it.
“Hello?”
There was silence for a second. Then a voice-low, hoarse, and disturbingly calm.
“Auntie Amelia,” Chole whispered on the other end.
Amelia froze.
“Chole…? Are you-how are you even-“
“I’m alive. Isn’t that wonderful?”
“Why are you calling me?” Amelia’s voice dropped to a hush, as if someone might overhear.
Chole let out a soft laugh. It sounded hollow. “I know what you did… at Eden Manor”
Amelia’s heart skipped a beat.
“I knoweverything.”
A cold sweat broke out on her back.
“Chole, listen. You’re not well. This isn’t the time-“
“I just wanted to thank you,” Chole interrupted, her voice syrupy sweet. “Because now, I’m going to marry your son. We’ll be one big, happy family.”
There was a pause.
“And you know what happens when a family keeps secrets, right? They rot from the inside.”
The line disconnected.
Amelia stood frozen. The phone still pressed to her ear, and her breath stuck in her throat. The ever-composed Luna of the
Hawthrone Pack felt the creeping chill of fear spread down her spine.
Olivia’s POV
The past five days had been oddly peaceful.
My leg was healing fast-thanks to werewolf genes, painkillers, and Mike’s miraculous chicken soup-and the swelling had gone down so much I could almost walk without crutches. Not that
Mike let me. Every time I tried, he’d wave a spatula at me like I was breaking sacred laws.
“You sit,” he’d say, dragging over the wheelchair. “Even queens get carried when injured.”
Honestly, I didn’t argue. His food was too good to risk being exiled from his kitchen.
Ava called in the morning. “Liv, Ethan’s in shambles. Everyone’s dragging him on the internet for turning a blind eye while his mistress got slapped. He can’t even show his face in public without being called a spineless golden retriever!”
I nearly choked on my tea.
“You okay?” Ava asked.
“Yeah, I coughed. “Just-‘golden retriever’?”
“Well, the loyal kind. Except he didn’t end up being loyal, so… mutt, maybe?”
“Let’s go with that.”
Apparently, Ethan had been too busy doing damage control after the Chole incident to bother me again. Rose had confirmed that he hadn’t shown up at my place since that night. Good. The less drama, the better.
“I also told Dad to take Mom abroad for a while,” I told Ava. “Just until this whole Windsor mess dies down. But they haven’t booked the tickets yet.”
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