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.

for so long, he never proposed or gave you the grand wedding you

owes you so much! How can it end like this?" "Rose, even if Jasper did owe me something, he's risked his life for me many times

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

I'm the one who

without burdens or pressure is my way of paying him back." Rose

looked pleadingly

pressed his

his face, he simply shook his

was a knock at

over and opened it to find Axel standing there,

Jonah's eyes as

"Sorry it took me so long, Jonah." Panting slightly, Axel asked anxiously, "How's Lyse? Is she

a cast,

to worry..." Jonah trailed off as he noticed a beautiful,

looked shy, there was something strikingly familiar

took the woman's hand, and pulled her into

his arm around her waist, his gaze

looked at the woman in disbelief, his eyes scanning her

"Amber...