#Chapter 186: Fate and Murder

Ella POV I couldn't tell if Alexander was just humoring me or if he truly believed what I was saying, but he seemed so intently focused on my words—so genuinely curious—that I did my best to answer all his questions and hoped he wasn’t just teasing me. When I mentioned the blonde woman, he looked shocked. Sad. But I didn’t want to dwell on that right now. I could ask him for more details later, after he’d had time to process everything. He said he needed time to think about all of this, and that was completely fair. It was a lot to expect him to accept—that something like this was even possible. “So, I really lost to David,” Alexander said again, taking another drink of his whiskey. “I’m disappointed in my alternate-universe self.” “I’m not sure about alternate universe,” I said, “but you shouldn’t be disappointed. Now we know that David had a whole team of powerful criminals behind him. If not for that, he wouldn’t have won.” “It seems to me that he won