Can’t Win Me Back

Jasper remained silent.

His hands balled into tight fists at his sides, trembling ever so lightly as a dark expression settled over his face.

After amoment of silence, Justin offered a casual smile, ignoring the tension on Jasper's face as he moved past him.

"Justin, I've always respected you since I was young." Jasper's voice broke the silence, hoarse and strained, with his back turned to Justin.

“There are things I can compromise on, but some matters, I can't." Justin, his back still facing Jasper, narrowed his eyes and asked, " Such as?" "My need to see her now." A fierce determination lit Jasper's darkened eyes.

"Justin, I won't deny your feelings for her.

It's none of my business.

But you have no right to stop me from seeing her either.

"If you and Ms.

Alyssa are officially together, I'll never go near her again.

You won't even need to say a word.

I'll give you both my blessings and wish you a happy life together." As Jasper said "happy life", his throat tightened, and a bitter taste of bile rose at the back of his mouth.

Still, he continued, "But as long as she's not yours, we're equals in her eyes.

can see her,

bothers you, I'm sorry." The darkness in Justin's eyes hid any

he asked, “Jasper, do you still have feelings for her? You haven't let go, have you?" A

Justin's voice grew deeper, marked by a few

have I treated you since we were kids?" "You've

with Justin, four years his senior, a brother who

first entered the Beckett family, his life seemed bleak, as he was

the first to show him care, standing by him when the household staff mistreated

was also the one who had put his own life on

Jasper would have been the one sitting in the wheelchair today, unable

I'll be bound to this

the permanent part of it too, just to keep me going." Panting

that I don't deserve

Alyssa.

time

all humans

own for so

is

the companionship

married, start a family, and have a happy and fulfilling

from the world, longed for a family? And the woman he wanted to

Jasper's chest tightened.

the earlier scene at the orphanage, where Alyssa and Justin had shared a smile