Can’t Win Me Back

Chapter 940

Hot air blasted out of the pan. Jasper wiped away the sweat on his face and sighed. “Dammit. Burnt again.”

Only then did Alyssa see the countless burnt eggs in the trash bint beside the stove.

“Pft. The heat is too high, silly. You’d go through an entire chicken farm without succeeding at this rate,” she teased.

Jasper’s heart skipped a beat as he turned around, meeting Alyssa’s eyes.

“Did I… wake you?” he asked nervously.

“No, my biological clock did. I don’t have a habit of sleeping in,” Alyssa replied.

She then pointed at the trash bin beside him, teasing, “You’re lucky Sean isn’t around to see this. He hates it when people waste food. If he had been here, he would have made you scoop everything back out and eat it.”

I never wasted food during my time in the army,” Jasper replied lightly.

a first

capable of doing something like that. She

was easy whenever I watched Rosie cook. Now

kitchen countertop, guilt filled his chest. “I know you must’ve been so tired and put in so much effort to

blinked quickly, conflicted emotions

But it

Give me some more time to practice. I’ll improve.”

saw through his

kitchen in their three years of marriage. Rosie had told Alyssa it wasn’t purely because of his prejudice against her, but

reminded Jasper of the slums he had lived in with his mother. Their house had been surrounded by

how hard they scrubbed their clothes, that smell never

never done before. He truly doted on Alyssa, even crossing his own boundaries for her.

She gently nudged Jasper away. “That’s enough

allergy acting up again after inhaling

know to switch

wrong, Lyse? Did you catch