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

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 two

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

time, I'm the one who

burdens or pressure is my way of paying

pleadingly at

his lips

troubled expression on his face, he simply shook

was a knock at the

opened it to find Axel standing there, looking worn

Jonah's eyes as

me so long, Jonah." Panting slightly, Axel asked anxiously, "How's Lyse?

a cast, but otherwise, she's recovering

trailed off as he noticed a beautiful, unfamiliar

there was something

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

around her waist, his gaze

the woman in disbelief, his

"Amber...