Watch Me Win Alpha (Olivia and Ethan) novel Chapter 147

Chapter 147

In the dark, we stumbled toward the living room. I almost tripped over a large vase in the corner of the room, and Ava bumped into a side table, jostling a lamp, but she managed to catch it before it crashed to the floor.

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Finally, we made it to our purses. Quickly, Ava made the call to the police and put her phone on speaker so that I could hear it.

“Yes, please send over someone as quickly as possible,” Ava said after she quickly explained the situation. “The knocking on my door is becoming so loud, I can barely even hear you and…” She paused and swallowed, but she rolled her shoulders back, trying to remain brave. “And I think there might be someone in the house.”

The pounding on the door was becoming so loud that I could barely hear myself think. Whoever was trying to get in alternated between knocking and ranging the doorbell repeatedly.

“I’m sending someone over to your location right now,” the operator assured us. “Go to a room that you can lock and stay there to wait for the officers to get to you. If you have any weapons to protect yourselves, bring them with you.”

Her last sentence made a jolt go through me. The room spun. This whole thing was all happening too fast.

After Ava hung up, she grabbed my hand and dragged me to her bedroom. She locked the door and used the light from her cell phone to look around the room. I shook my head to clear it. I couldn’t afford to go into shock right now. I had to help Ava. As I got my phone out of my purse, we heard a noise coming from the other room.

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It was the unmistakable sound of a door being unlocked.

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Ava’s terrified gaze met mine. “They’re inside!” she whispered, her voice high with anxiety.

This time, I was the one to act first. I grabbed onto her wrist and led her into her bathroom that was connected to the room. We shut the door and locked it. The fact that there were now two locked doors between us and the intruder made my shoulders relax slightly.

After a moment of eerie silence, Ava quietly gasped.

“What is it?” I whispered.

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Once I got a good look at him, I immediately stopped screaming.

“Ava!” I said and shook her because she was still yelling with fear. “It’s. Richard!”

Alexander’s new bodyguard was standing in the doorway with a sheepish expression. “I’m sorry, ladies. I didn’t mean to frighten you. That was the opposite of what I wanted. Mr. Green has put me in charge of protecting you two for the night, but to do it discreetly. So, I found the extra key to your balcony on your patio and have been watching over things. I’m so sorry to scare you. I’ve been making sure to lock it each time I leave.”

My heart was still slamming against my chest. “Were you also pounding on the front door?” I asked Richard.

His head tilted to the side. “No, that wasn’t me.” As if on cue, the knocking started again. Richard volunteered to see who it was. Turned out, it was just Ava’s landlord who had come around to inform all the tenants about the power outage. It wasn’t just Ava’s apartment. It was the whole building. The landlord had heard us screaming, and that was why he had been pounding on the door. He had decided to come in with his master key when she hadn’t answered to make sure we were alright, but when he didn’t find us, he left.