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.

with him for so long, he never proposed

even if Jasper did owe me something, he's risked

to suppress her emotions, managing only a slight, bitter

time, I'm the

pressure is my way of paying him back." Rose wasn't

looked pleadingly

his

a troubled expression on his face, he simply

then, there was a knock

to

eyes as he perked

Welcome back, Axel." "Sorry it took me so long, Jonah." Panting slightly, Axel asked anxiously, "How's Lyse? Is she getting better?" "I'm glad that you

a cast, but otherwise,

off as he noticed a beautiful, unfamiliar woman standing

shy, there was something

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

around her waist, his gaze

woman in disbelief, his eyes

"Amber...