Can’t Win Me Back

In an instant, Landon felt like he had been shot in the heart.

The pain caused his sturdy body to tremble.

"Back in the Beckett family, Lauren had no sense of self, and she wasn't happy at all.

Now that she's with you, she's become the woman you keep by your side, living life according to your arrangements and preferences.

I don't think being too compliant is good for her." Jasper lowered his eyes and took a sip of wine.

"Take a few days apart from each other to calm down.

It's a chance to think about the future of your relationship and how you want to proceed." "Jasper...

do you even hear what you're saying?" Landon slammed his hands on the table, causing the wine in the glass decanter to ripple.

His eyes were redder than the wine within.

"When you pursued Alyssa, I never once asked you to give up! Now, when I need advice, you don't help...

you even want me to give up? "In the end, I'm just a worthless and irresponsible bastard in

never intended to truly entrust Lauren to me! I really regret ever being friends

to give up on her, could

could you? Losing Alyssa would kill you, wouldn't it?

you said I should reconsider

you're killing me.

my

the slightest stimulus could make her world collapse!" Jasper's

as if he were choosing a

can't endure what ordinary people can, and she

and patience

have clearly shown that

so forcefully." Landon's heart sank, as if a bucket of cold water

he had indeed been in the wrong, and

its peak, a

men looked up and saw Alyssa standing