Watch Me Win Alpha (Olivia and Ethan) novel Chapter 327

Chapter 327

“After how my first marriage ended, I don’t think I’ll ever get married again,” I said and smiled, trying to make a joke out of this whole thing. “Why would I subject myself to more family drama when I almost didn’t survive the last time?”

I knew that I had said the wrong thing when Alexander’s hands flexed on the steering wheel. He frowned and let out a huff of a breath. The car was silent for a moment, and the quiet morphed into something uncomfortable as I waited for Alexander to say something. When a look of hurt flashed across his face, hot guilt stabbed my stomach.

But then, Alexander’s expression softened. He released the steering wheel and put his hand back on my thigh. “Well, if you ever change your mind about marriage, make sure that I’m the first person that you let know.

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His words made me smile despite everything. Even though Alexander and I came from very different backgrounds and we seemed to want completely separate things from life–Alexander seemed to want a family and I just wanted to find myself after losing my identity in my first marriage. I knew that Alexander was being serious. The fact that he actually has considered marrying me made my heart lift, and I flushed with hot pleasure.

Thankfully, traffic started to move again, and Alexander had to focus on the road so that I could be alone with my thoughts.

When we returned to the office, it was already close to the end of the work day. When I ran into Gai after we stepped off of the elevator, my cheeks grew warm since I had been gone most of the afternoon. Before I could even begin to make up excuses, Gai lifted her hand to stop me.

“Don’t worry about it,” she said and smiled. “I told everyone that you and Alexander went to an important work meeting for the afternoon.”

I sighed with relief. “Thank you so much.”

Her covering for us deeply moved me. I vowed to have Mike bring her breakfast from now on.

The next few days went by fast. Alexander drove me to the physical therapist every day after work so that Jacob could apply the medicine. My ankle injury eventually healed, and after using some exercises that Jacob had taught me, I could finally ditch my annoying crutches and walk on my

own.

Alexander was a very supportive boyfriend when we were at the physical therapist. As he waited

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for my medicine to dry, he played chess and talked with Jacob. After a few days, Jacob took me aside and said that he definitely approved of Alexander.

His comment made satisfaction surge through me. But Alexander seemed to take advantage of the fact that Jacob approved of him. I noticed that he began to ask my physical therapist seemingly random questions about my father, DeAngelo.

One day, he even got Jacob to reveal that my father had purchased expensive orchids and even hid it from my mother–something that even I hadn’t been aware of. Why would my father ever do that? What did he have to hide?

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