Can’t Win Me Back

Jasper discreetly clenched his trembling hands into fists under the table.

With a dim look in his eyes, he answered Sheryl, "I'm fine.

What brings you here, Dr.

Gillis?" Sheryl smiled warmly.

"Mr. Jasper, have you forgotten? Mr. Javier instructed me to stay by your side and keep a close watch on your health whenever I have time." "Even so, don't you know what the most basic manners are?" Deep down, Xavier rolled his eyes.

"Even if you wanted to look after Mr. Jasper's health, the president's office isn't a place you can barge into just as you wish.

Dr. Gillis, are you as impolite as this before Mr. Justin too?" Sheryl wasn't offended.

Instead, she lifted her lips into a smile.

" Every field of work is different.

Mr. Hall, you're only saying this because you've never been in this field.

So, I don't blame you.

"But, if Mr. Jasper's condition were to flare up while there was no one around him to tend to him, would you be responsible if anything bad happened to him?" Xavier burned with so much anger that his chest hurt.

He tightened his fists.

Ever since Justin brought such a strange woman home, all their peace and serenity had been shattered! The current Jasper wasn't the same person he was before—all women were now equal in his eyes.

They were at such a delicate juncture.

If Sheryl took advantage of the current situation by always being by Jasper's side, she would have the upper hand.

for her to benefit from being close to Jasper, which would result in them developing feelings for one another? Alyssa's husband

of coffee." Jasper

lowered his eyes and continued looking

teeth, Xavier acknowledged, "Will do,

look in Sheryl's eyes

enjoy drinking coffee?" Jasper answered, "Yes." "Not

you to try next time?" "To date, I have never seen anyone make coffee better than my girlfriend does." The moment Jasper blurted that statement, his

images that flashed through his mind were from those early mornings after

kitchen, clasping gently at the nightgown

she looked as she

warmly on that beautiful and attractive face of

around that slim

kiss her deeply on her blushing cheeks and on every part of her that he set his

always love me?" "Lyse, I

you."

sudden, he could feel his heart skip a

corrected himself in a low voice, "I

admit that she's a multi-talented woman." Sheryl

toward Jasper and continued in a profound tone, "But over time, one is bound to get sick of coffee brewed by the

a bad idea to get

on my personal matters?" Jasper finally lifted his

at Sheryl

on

pills from her bag and placed them before

a medication that I've prescribed

treat your current

may try taking it for

not effective, you can just