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.

How could he also be the one claiming to be Rose’s boyfriend? They just

That bitch couldn’t be so lucky as to date

they look so alike. Anyone would have thought they were

frantically searched her drawer for nitroglycerin pills. She found them, poured out a

distress even after taking the pills.

She slowly tightened her

“You… saw everything.”

pursed his lips,

cheap and lowly background. What’s the point of a fancy designer title anyway? It can’t scrub away the stains of my past. You must be

a warm, reassuring presence enveloping

him, Silas expressed his affection by pulling her