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.

was poisoned to death!" Jameson's hand on

popped, and a

"Jameson...

and killed so many? You even used and murdered your own mother? How could you do that..." "Lyse, do you know that your smarts are both your strength and weakness?" Jameson smiled despite having reddened eyes, making his face look even

not understand me, but you do, don't you?" Jameson grabbed Alyssa

was all because of

ragged and raw,

he was inhumane and

voice—not once in all the years they'd known each

despair and rage, melded into a

too long, it festered, rotted, devoured him like maggots feasting

and when he finally

a monster—his humanity

control, and it was too late for any

"My mother...

it, she didn't have

She would've suffered horribly.

His burning gaze softened, and Jameson

the helicopter so willingly if I

only had one shot;