Can’t Win Me Back

Jamie exclaimed, “They managed to scare us off. How embarrassing and humiliating!”

“You’re kidding, right? It’d be even more embarrassing to stick around any longer,” Lydia countered as she suppressed the pain in her wrist.

Lydia then retrieved her phone, opened the browser, and found a picture of Jonah Taylor, the president of KS Group.

Jamie peered over her shoulder. When she saw the picture, she gasped, “Isn’t this the guy we saw earlier? He’s the president of KS Group!”

Lydia’s eyes darkened as she gazed at the picture, feeling beads of sweat forming.

Initially, the man had seemed familiar, but she couldn’t place him. Then, as she left through the exit, it clicked—he was one-half of the gay couple that had recently made headlines.

president of KS Group is gay. How could he also be the one claiming to be Rose’s boyfriend? They just bear a

right. That bitch couldn’t be so lucky as to

murmured, “But they look

while her other hand frantically searched her drawer for nitroglycerin pills. She found them,

after taking the pills. His heart went out to her, feeling a

She slowly tightened her grip on her chest, the strain evident in

“You… saw everything.”

pursed his lips, his

the

could finish speaking, she felt a warm, reassuring presence enveloping

over him, Silas expressed his affection by pulling