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.

you say that? After being with him for so long, he never proposed or gave you the grand wedding

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

Alyssa forced herself to suppress her emotions, managing

the one who

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

pleadingly at

his

on his

was a knock at

and opened it to find Axel standing there, looking

filled Jonah's eyes

slightly, Axel asked anxiously, "How's Lyse? Is

her leg in a cast, but otherwise,

worry..." Jonah trailed off as he noticed a beautiful, unfamiliar woman standing

was something strikingly

took the woman's hand, and pulled

around her waist, his

Amber.” Jonah looked at the woman in disbelief, his eyes scanning

"Amber...