Can’t Win Me Back

Jonah? There was a mystery surrounding Jonah? Every word was like a blooming poppy, drawing Julien in, tempting him to the point where it was difficult to resist.

But that was only because of how deeply he loved Jonah.

And that love was the chink in Julien's armor, leaving him vulnerable to manipulation.

In the end, Julien wavered.

In a heavy voice, he asked, "How long will this take? I need to go home to celebrate my lover's birthday." "It'll be quick." Uri Holland shut his gloomy eyes.

He turned to his side and slipped a hand into his pocket.

He gestured to Julien.

"Let's take my car.

This way." As the black vehicle sped through the dark winter night, colorful lights flashed past them on both sides.

Seated in the passenger seat, Julien held onto that bouquet of white roses in his arms as he gazed out the window with a restless, doubtful expression.

As Uri drove, he glanced at Julien's strikingly handsome, almost ethereal face as he drove, his gaze unreadable.

gather some sense of security from the man's

anything left him

away from Julien and

grasp on the steering wheel, he

U-R-I." Julien mentally repeated the

Or is it some kind of resentment?" Uri did not

a deserted

state of disrepair, Julien could see the villa's potential — it could be a beautiful house if

retro Sedonian design

quite a

out of the car before Julien

regret, but at this

a word while Julien

are we?" Uri stopped briefly, his

Jonah ever mention that he has

exclaimed, "Are you saying that this house is Jonah's? Why did he abandon this place then?" Uri clenched his teeth as he pushed open the heavy door

happened, and he decided that this place no longer meant anything to him." Inside, the furniture was

was cold, dusty, dark,