Can’t Win Me Back

Surprisingly, Preston had the time to laugh at the situation. He quipped, “I’m afraid time is running out for someone here, though. My dearest nephew, haven’t you made your choice?”

The water in the glass tank had reached Lauren’s chest.

“Mr. Landon!” Angelina urged him in a quivering voice. Their worried eyes met, and time and space seemed to come to a stop.

He remembered saying to her, “Angie, come work for me.”

She had once said to him, “Mr. Landon, I will stay loyal to you no matter the circumstance.”

At that moment, she smiled at Landon through tears as she recalled their first encounter. The mirage of the teenage boy who made her heart flutter overlapped with Landon’s handsome figure.

“I do not want you to hesitate. No matter what happens, always choose Madam,” she gently muttered a heartfelt remark to Landon that sounded like a grand and touching farewell.

She added, “You and Madam must live happily forever after.”

“No—”

a split second, Landon seemed to have understood something.

had turned around without warning

rang in the air,

other. After a

“Angie!”

water stopped flowing into the glass tank

jumped into it. In a trance, he scooped Angelina’s body out of the pool of

sobbed uncontrollably as he repeatedly called

I’m here.” Unfortunately, he would never get to

between master and servant.

a bitter

nephew? I’m a man of my word. I told you to pick one out of two and