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.”

be fine with that. I never wasted food during my time in the army,”

be a first for him.

could be at times and that he was indeed capable of doing something like that.

was easy whenever I watched Rosie cook. Now that

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

blinked quickly, conflicted emotions filling

you to have breakfast I made for you. But it looks like Sean will have to buy some for us this time.”

some more time

saw through his

years of marriage. Rosie had told Alyssa it wasn’t purely because of his prejudice against her, but because he had never liked the smell of smoke and oil

slums he had lived in with his mother. Their house had

their clothes, that smell never

do something he had never done before. He truly doted on Alyssa, even crossing his own

nudged Jasper away. “That’s enough of terrorizing my

suddenly, her allergy acting up again after

to switch on the

wrong, Lyse? Did you catch