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 you

"Rose, even if Jasper did owe me something, he's risked his life for me many times over the

forced herself to suppress her emotions, managing only a slight, bitter

the one who

pressure is my way of paying him back."

pleadingly

pressed his lips

his face, he

was a knock at the

opened it to find Axel standing

filled Jonah's eyes as he

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

a cast, but otherwise, she's

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

there was something strikingly familiar about

turned, gently took the woman's hand, and

arm around her waist, his gaze

woman in disbelief, his eyes scanning her face again

"Amber...