Can’t Win Me Back

"Neither has Jasper proposed to you nor have you both had your wedding.

It didn't happen three years ago and still hasn't happened.

He didn't even put a decent-enough diamond ring on you.

"Everything is just as it is.

Doesn't he feel ashamed to call himself your husband? How ridiculous." Jameson gently lifted Alyssa's hand, lowered his gaze, and kissed its back before slipping a brilliant pear-shaped pink diamond onto her finger.

Alyssa wished she could tear it off and throw it into the sea.

But she couldn't move.

Jameson handled her as he pleased.

"Jasper is weak, always second-guessing.

He had you, but he was afraid of everything.

He doesn't deserve you." He pressed the hand wearing the ring against his chest, his eyes burning with passion.

"I'll give you everything he couldn't.

We'll have a romantic island wedding here on Rose Island.

and the birds

have a huge field

freshest and most beautiful at dawn

you longed for?"

if it's with Jasper." Alyssa stared

"Jameson, so what if you scheme and go to any lengths to do all these? Your heart is just a barren land where

where roses

The smile froze on

by his usually- paled face, he looked especially frigid, sinister, and sly at

said, he regained his

lowered his eyes, ready to taste

"Mrs.

Schmidt...

would have his dream realized, Alyssa blurted

Jameson's chest tightened.

He froze.

in those dark

on anxiously, "What in the

Feeling like his heart was being pierced by

has passed away."

did that happen?" "That day, after getting on the helicopter, she passed away on the way to Rose

this moment, he dared not look into Alyssa's sharp, bright

was a