Can’t Win Me Back

Julien blinked. Being observant and having dated Jonah for a while, he immediately noticed his lover spacing out. "You're not

attentive. Are you feeling unwell?"

Jonah's heart sank. He denied in a raspy voice, "No. I'm fine."

"Julien, | have a favor to ask of you!" Alyssa quickly distracted Julien, whisking him away to the living room. She said to Jonah,

"Jonah, what are you doing? You should throw together sfood for Julien!"

"Sure." Jonah left without a word.

Meanwhile, Julien kept turning around to check on Jonah. Something felt amiss, but he couldn't quite put a finger on it.

Back in the living room, Alyssa laid out the pills she brought with her on the coffee table. "Julien, please run stests on the

components of this drug. You're the domain expert, not to mention you have the right equipment for it."

"What's this?" Frowning, he scrutinized the blue pills.

"There were a few consecutive cases of drug addicts dying of heart attack in Solana City, but in the post-mortem, the examiner

not find evidence of the victims taking

that, the victims showed symptoms of seizure and mad behavior before their deaths, like

Their deaths were horrific.

research, we found out that the victims had taken this type of drug before their deaths.

and The Ivory Gang. Julien, please figure out if the drug carries any harmful components as

can."

he learned that the case involved The

and Colene has always fussed over me. | will definitely see

her lips, thinking, "Julien is really a nice guy. Jonah should never hurt him, or

about that. I'll get back to you as soon

"Alright then. | won't be thirdwheeling any longer. I'll head

wrong with Jonah just now? He seemed upset," Julien called out to her with

too much for Jonah and only had eyes for him, just like how Jasper felt toward

could read her mind from

in heartache. Their Foxy appeared to

deserved the best relationship in the world,

| guess he's still recovering from exhaustion. He's not

remorsefully. "It was my fault for stubbornly keeping him up

next time. I'll

relationship with Jonah," she said without betraying her emotions,

the road, after decades of living together, will you think differently of

you envisioned him to be, and sof his issues might