Can’t Win Me Back

Chapter 257

“Miss … Ms. Alyssa has gone to bed, Mr.Jonah,”Sean muttered.

“Your balls must be growing bigger whileyou’re away from my side, Sean. Are you seriously lying to me on her behalf now?”Jonah rarely got angry, but when he did, he was a menacing force.

Jonah then said, “I’ll repeat myself. Pass the phone to Alyssa. Or else you’ll be removed from your station right away!”

Alyssa chewed on her lip, her heart beating fast in her chest as she took the phone and put it up to her ear.

“Jo-Jonah.”

Jonah took a deep breath, as if suppressing some intense emotion.”Come outside. We need to talk.”

…

Alyss a walked out of her house, her heart in her throat as she went up to Jonah’s Aston Martin by the road.

against the car, his gray suit making him seem like some sullen god. All Alyssa could think of right now was how terrified she

“Jonah,”she murmured.

cold.”Jonah took off his coat,put it over Alyssa’s shoulders, then led her

asked worriedly, “Where did he

arm …” Alyssa looked down, feelinglike

up her sleeve. His eyes filled with anger when he saw the white gauze

just a skin wound.It doesn’t hurt much anymore, either.”Alyssa reassured him. She didn’t want

took her hand. The

think this is something I can handle on my own. That’s why… I didn’t

a depressive silence, Jonah looked up at her,

brother’s old fe rocity had returned in a split second, even after he’d embraced a more spiritual way of life for

that moment, Alyssa could see a shadow of his old self again—the man who had led thousands of men in the underground, the one feared and

known

huggedhim tightly, nuzzling into his rapidly rising chest. You

in a biggergame. So what if you kill him? His

opportunity to catchthe bigger target, Jonah. That’d

gaze slowly faded away. He sighed, leaned against Alyssa, and then handed her a brown envelope from the front passenger’s seat.

opened the envelope and