Can’t Win Me Back

"M-Mr. Beckett?" Jasper was in a daze.

He turned his eyes slowly toward Sean and stared at him coldly.

"How's Ms. Alyssa?" he asked.

His voice was deep and throaty, as if he was parched.

Sean fixed his eyes on the man before him.

Suddenly, he was overcome by a plethora of emotions and was moved to tears.

He choked, "Ms. Alyssa... She's sick. Very sick.

Go on in and see her.

I'm sure she will be very happy to see you and she will get better." Promptly, Sean pushed the door open for him.

Jasper pursed his lips into a thin line.

Clenching his hands into fists, he walked into the ward slowly.

Jonah and Cyrus were moved by Jasper showing up.

so, they did their best to keep a straight face before coming

were the only ones left in the

in the past, they had nothing to say to one another when they now looked into

an inexplicable feeling of loneliness,

that you threw up blood." Jasper stood stiffly by the side of Alyssa's bed and didn't

made him look

but it hasn't flared up in along

all of a sudden?" Tears welled up at the back of

tears as she gave him a slight, bitter

gastritis and a pretty bad

used to flare up frequently, and it was because she started living with

Jasper looked after her

diet, and tirelessly made nutritious and easily digestible dishes for

like she was a child, forbidding

her gastritis hadn't flared up in a really long

was in a mess, but so was her

long been pampered by

decision-making skills and life skills went

woman who could no

she could

to grow up