Can’t Win Me Back

Acold glint flickered in Jameson's eyes, masking the savage fury unleashed by the pain and desperation as his wound was torn open.

"Lyse...

1 know you despise me, but you can't slander me like this..." "I slandered you? Jameson, you've really gone off the deep end.

You dared to do such a thing but don't have the guts to admit to it? wt Alyssa stared straight at his pale and gloomy face.

There wasn't any fear within her, only a heart-wrenching resentment.

"Mrs. Schmidt looked like she was having an episode because of what I said, but I already felt something was off when she was seizing and foaming at the mouth.

"In the past, you've said that your mother's heart was weak.

But when I checked on her eyes and pulse at the time, she wasn't presenting with symptoms of a heart attack, let alone a seizure.

"Subsequently, red spots started to form on her skin.

Pairing all that with the way you're reacting right now, I have reason to believe that you injected Mrs.

Schmidt with some poisonous substance beforehand.

to death!" Jameson's hand on her waist started to

on his hands popped, and a menacing gleam presented itself

"Jameson...

How could you do that..." "Lyse, do you know that your smarts are both your strength

do, don't you?" Jameson grabbed Alyssa by the chin, squeezing her so hard that it

all because of

voice, ragged and raw, erupted from him, a mutilated sound filled with

he was

to Alyssa, he had never raised his voice—not once in all the years

hate, despair and rage, melded into

festered, rotted, devoured

ground for sin, and when he finally wanted to turn back, it was

was a

had lost all control, and it was too late for

"My mother...

if I hadn't done it, she didn't have

She would've suffered horribly.

and Jameson leaned close to Alyssa's

the helicopter so willingly if I hadn't? It would've been

had one shot; I