Can’t Win Me Back

All of a sudden, a glimmer flashed across Lauren's clear eyes.

She stared straight at the audience.

Her lashes fluttered, and her pink lips started quivering.

Her eyes turned red.

They glistened as she welled up with tears.

"Darling.

Darling? Are you okay?" Landon started panicking when he noticed that Lauren was crying.

"A-An-Angie..." Lauren stuttered.

Her lips trembled, and her voice was extremely raspy, as if she had been parched for a long time.

Though her voice barely rose above a murmur, Landon caught every word.

He heard her loud and clear! "Lauren! You...

You can speak?" Landon was so agitated that tears filled his eyes.

He lost it.

" Lauren! You really can speak?" "Lan-don..." Lauren lifted a finger and pointed to the spot below the stage nearest to them.

She had a wide smile on her face, yet tears were streaming down her cheeks.

"I...

see...

direction that

no

Angelina, he wouldn't

he were greeting an old-time friend who had traveled far and wide to attend

"You're right.

into her ear, "I see her

After asking a few helpers, Alyssa finally found Tatiana

over a sink

expression on her face showed that she was having a really difficult

You..." Alyssa

pale face and the tears

she widened

"Taty! It can't be, can it?

welled up with

couldn't hold herself back and started crying before

"I'm pregnant...

Sean's child..." Alyssa gasped and covered her mouth in

moved beyond

a new generation! Winston and Lyla would be great- grandparents, while she and Jasper would soon be an aunt and

she pulled her in for

a shaky voice, she asked, "Since when?" 2 "T

hospital for a checkup..." Tatiana's eyes were swollen from

She sniffled pitifully.