Can’t Win Me Back

The once pristine white rose petals were now marred by the dark stain of Julien's blood.

"Let's end it here." Julien's voice was soft, yet those four words shattered Jonah's heart into fragments.

"Julien, I will not allow you to leave me!" Every muscle in Jonah's body trembled with desperation.

A ferocious rage ignited in his eyes.

"I know who I love.

You are not a substitute for anyone! Julien, don't leave me...

I cannot let you go!" Panic coursed through him.

He cried and pleaded, desperately trying to hold Julien back.

Torn between gentleness and force, he was willing to accept any outcome as long as the man he adored stayed with him.

The first time it happened, Jonah had barely survived the emotional turmoil.

If it happened again, it would drive him to the brink of insanity and death.

His breathing became ragged; his bloodshot eyes blazed with determination.

With open arms, Jonah moved to embrace Julien, who had been reduced to pieces.

But just as he leaned in, a sharp pain shot through his left eye.

"Don't touch me!" In a moment of uncontrolled rage, Julien had grabbed another rose, dragging its thorny stem across Jonah's face.

Jonah was fortunate to have closed his eyes just in time; otherwise, that thorn could have slashed his eyeball, leaving him blinded.

Julien stared at the bloodied cut on Jonah's face, momentarily forgetting his own pain.

Dazed, his hands trembled as the instinct to care for Jonah flickered within him.

Yet he fought against it, forcing out the words, "Jonah, you need to go to the hospital—" Jonah couldn't be bothered about himself.

blood

pulled Julien into

"Promise me, then...

with me!" "Jonah, I admit that

to stay with you." Despite allowing Jonah to hold

passion that he once had in

to stay in this relationship, living by your side in the future will only make me feel like I'm acting as somebody

love for me

I want, in particular, is just that bit of

he continued, "I

that I was able

Jonah, that's enough.

us..." By the time

a forlorn shadow

Alyssa's heart sank.

She stumbled backward slightly.

before her was alive but resembled an empty

"Ms.

what in the

Jonah and Dr.

Lovelace?" Sean questioned anxiously.

entire journey there but was

a few years when Jonah was KS Group's

devastated as this! Alyssa took

wait

have a talk with Jonah in private." Knitting

to retreat and

downcast expression, Alyssa welled up with

walked to his side slowly, knelt down, and picked up the roses that had scattered across the floor, one at

the greeting card containing Julien's heartfelt confession, she

vision, smudging

a ball of fury exploded within