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.

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

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 over the last

suppress her emotions,

time, I'm the one

on without burdens or pressure is my

looked pleadingly at

pressed his lips

troubled expression on his face,

a

to find Axel standing there, looking worn

filled Jonah's eyes

so long, Jonah." Panting slightly, Axel asked anxiously,

in a cast, but otherwise, she's

as he noticed a beautiful, unfamiliar woman

shy, there was

smile, Axel turned, gently took the woman's hand, and pulled her into his

her waist, his gaze filled with

the woman in disbelief, his

"Amber...