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.

Group is gay. How could he also be the

bitch couldn’t be so lucky as to date

visibly shaken, attempted to reassure herself. She murmured, “But they look

her office, clutching her chest while her other hand frantically searched her drawer for nitroglycerin pills. She found them, poured out a dose,

even after taking the pills. His heart went out

Rose’s once proud posture now slumped slightly. She slowly tightened her grip on her chest, the strain evident in

“You… saw everything.”

pursed his lips, his

can’t scrub away the stains of my past. You must be really let down, huh? Well, now that they’re gone, you don’t

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

came over him, Silas expressed his affection by pulling