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.

his gray suit making him seem like some sullen god. All Alyssa could

“Jonah,”she murmured.

took off his coat,put it over Alyssa’s shoulders, then led

inside, he asked worriedly, “Where did he hurt

down, feelinglike a child who had made

he grasped her arm and slowly pulled up her sleeve. His eyes filled with

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

took her hand. The careful touch made

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

at her, growling, “I’ll kill

fe rocity had returned in a split second, even after

could see a shadow of his old self again—the man who had led thousands of men in the underground,

known

his rapidly rising chest. You promised not to return to that path now

what if you kill him? His employer would still be on the

bigger target, Jonah. That’d only make us

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

curiously opened the envelope and pulled out the documents within.”What