Can’t Win Me Back

Alyssa wasn't yet fully recovered.

She was still limping when she walked.

Despite that, she wouldn't allow herself to lie in bed like a useless person.

Even though she was still in crutches and her left leg was still ina cast after resting for a week, she insisted on getting discharged from the hospital.

She didn't inform Winston and his wives on the day of her discharge.

Still, seeing Jonah, Silas, Rose, and Sean show up to take her home warmed her heart.

"Lyse, are you and Jasper really..." Rose clung onto Alyssa's arm, which had grown noticeably thinner.

She welled up with tears.

"Yeah.

It's over," Alyssa said with a soft smile, sounding almost relieved.

"We were once deeply in love, and that was enough.

I have no regrets." The urgency in Rose's voice made her eyes redden.

being with him for so long, he never proposed or gave you

like this?" "Rose, even if Jasper did owe

his debts." Alyssa forced herself to suppress her emotions, managing only a slight, bitter

the one

burdens or pressure is my way of paying him back." Rose

pleadingly at

his

a troubled expression on his face,

a knock at the

and opened it to find

Jonah's eyes

Jonah." Panting slightly, Axel asked anxiously, "How's Lyse? Is she getting better?" "I'm glad that

leg in a cast,

off as he noticed a beautiful, unfamiliar

shy, there was

this is..." With a smile, Axel turned, gently took the woman's hand, and

wrapped his arm around her waist, his gaze filled with

woman in disbelief, his eyes scanning her face again

"Amber...