Filed to story: Watch Me Win Alpha (Olivia & Ethan)
It wasn’t fair that when Alexander blushed, he was even more attractive.
Back in his office, Alexander handed me another financial statement to review, but when I grabbed the paper, he didn’t let go of it. Our eyes locked together, and the serious expression on his face made my pulse quicken. Alexander used my grip on the paper to pull me closer to him until our bodies were just a breath away. I swallowed past the sudden lump in my throat as my legs trembled.
“Listen, I’m sorry for losing control last night in the elevator,” Alexander murmured, his dark eyes boring into mine. “I hope that I didn’t scare you. That’s the last thing I ever want to do.”
I was about to reply, but then his gaze flashed down to my lips for a fraction of a second, and my stomach swooped.
*Olivia*
Chap 168
My heart raced as Alexander looked back into my eyes. Had he actually glanced at my lips, or had I imagined that? Had it been wishful thinking on my part?
I swallowed thickly as I tried to remember what he had just said. It took me longer than it should to reply. Finally, I remembered that he had apologized for cornering me in the elevator last night.
“I-I accept your apology,” I said and licked my suddenly dry lips.
This action didn’t go unnoticed by Alexander. His eyes darkened with an emotion that looked pretty close to lust. But was I deluding myself into thinking that?
Alexander stepped even closer to me until his warm body was almost pressing up against mine. My whole body was flushed and begging me to close the distance between us. I was terrified that my heart was beating so loudly that he would be able to hear it. I couldn’t help but lower my gaze down to his lips. They were full and looked softer than velvet, but they still somehow appeared masculine.
“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.
When I sat back on the couch, I couldn’t help but think that Alexander had that conversation with me because he was going on a trip with another woman. Had he asked me to work late just so he could set clear boundaries in our relationship? Because if we were being honest with ourselves, we had both blurred those lines before.
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes as I reviewed another financial report. Alexander was 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 make more money on my paycheck this week with overtime.
An hour passed, and if I was being honest, I barely focused on the numbers in front of me. I was thinking about Naomi Wright. Maybe her sudden appearance in Alexander’s life was a blessing in disguise. With her taking on the romantic role in his life, then I could focus on my true role as Alexander’s assistant. Once Alexander and Naomi’s relationship went public, then the gossip about him and I would die down. Maybe I was looking at this all wrong.
But then I imagined Naomi’s perfect face, long legs, and that suggestive white smile that she 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 Alexander. Thankfully, he wasn’t paying attention to me. He was looking down at his phone, typing out a message.
My hands clenched in my lap. Was he texting Naomi?
At midnight, Alexander said that it was time to go home. Thankfully, Gai offered to drive me home because I didn’t want to accept a ride from Alexander. He didn’t even look up as he wished me good night. Something that bothered me even though I wished it didn’t.
When I got home, I hopped in the shower, then dressed in my most comfortable pair of black sweatpants and an oversized pink shirt. My stomach was still upset, so 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 on a roller coaster ride with the way it twisted and
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When the clock struck one at night, I groaned. It was no use. I needed stomach pills in order to sleep. My eyelids dropped as I grabbed my car keys off the counter and drove to the store.
After driving around for twenty minutes, I sighed in relief when I spotted a pharmacy that was open at this late hour. But as I flipped on my turn signal, the hair on the back of my neck rose. It felt like someone was watching me…
*Author*
“I wonder where she’s headed?” Alexander asked his bodyguard.
Alexander and Richard were in the car watching Olivia. They had been following her from a distance ever since she left work with Gai.
In response to his boss’s question, Richard merely shook his head. “Why don’t you just go up to her and see if she’s alright?” Richard suggested and rubbed his eyes. He had gotten very little sleep ever since he started working for Alexander. It was a good thing he paid well.
“I don’t want to scare her. She’s been on edge all night,” Alexander explained. “I can tell that something is wrong.”
Alexander sighed and noticed the bright lights of a twenty-four hour pharmacy up ahead. Was Olivia that unwell that she needed medicine? His pulse quickened at that thought. Then, he took out his phone in order to make arrangements.
*Olivia*
Because I was so creeped out, I ended up not stopping at the pharmacy. When I parked near my apartment building, I ran to the front door, but my heart dropped when I saw a dark figure waiting there. I opened my mouth to scream, but froze when I saw that the man was Richard.
“What are you doing here so late?” I asked and clutched my heart from the scare.
“A little birdie told me that you might need some medicine,” he said. He smiled kindly and gestured to the large cardboard box he was holding. “And I have Mike’s Medicine right here.”
How did he figure out that I was sick…but my thought process was interrupted by a painful jerk in my stomach. At the end of the day, it didn’t matter how he knew.
“Huh, I appreciate it, but I’m sorry you had to come all the way here at two in the morning,” I said.
“It’s my pleasure.” He followed me into the building, and we rode the elevator up my floor. “Why are you out so late?”
“I couldn’t sleep,” I explained. “Upset stomach. I wanted to buy some medicine to help with digestion, but I didn’t have any luck.”
“Well, your luck is about to change,” he said and nodded at the box in his hands. “I have everything you need in here.”
My shoulders slumped in relief. Honestly, I didn’t care if the two men had followed me as long as they had some stomach pills for me to take.
*Olivia*
I unlocked my apartment, and Richard followed me through the door. Another sharp pain hit me like a punch in the gut as Richard organized his medicines on my kitchen counter.
My eyes widened as I took in all the medications that he had brought with him. There were bottles of liquid cold medicine and small white pills for allergies. But there were even bottles of pills that had pictures of the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. I tilted my head as I picked up one of the bottles. Would these medications actually help with a medical emergency?
Richard piled all the bottles of pills and plastic containers of liquid medicine on my counter until he found what he was looking for. He pulled out a bottle of bright pink liquid and a box of digestive aid and handed them to me with a smile.
!
I took them gratefully and reached for my purse that was on the counter. “Thank you, Richard. Let me pay you for these.”
He waved my offer away.
It seemed wrong to accept the medications for free, but I silently planned to buy a couple of boxes of stomach medications and return it to Mike.
After I took the medicine, Richard left my apartment, and my stomach ache quickly disappeared like it had never been there in the first place. Exhausted, I quickly fell asleep with a relieved smile on my face.
My alarm on my phone went off, and when I reached for it, my stomach swooped with anticipation. There was a message from Amelia waiting for me. My heart slammed against my chest as I pulled up her message. What had she discovered about Russell Lewis?
My eyes widened as I read her message:
‘I found out that the missing boy’s body may be buried in a rural area or even in the mountains of Luceland. The body could be in an upland knoll covered with flowers near a pond and a cabin.’
Cold shock made a shiver go down my spine. I had to read Amelia’s message three times before I fully processed it. It was crazy to me that she could find all of this information out in only a day. But when you had unlimited money and resources, you could get just about anything done.
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