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.

see her, and so

you, I'm sorry." The darkness in Justin's

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

deeper, marked by a few dry

treated you since we were kids?" "You've treated me

four years his

Beckett family, his life seemed bleak,

him care, standing by him when the household staff mistreated him and offering him a sense of

life on

Jasper would have been the one sitting in

can see, I'll be bound to this

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

that I don't

Alyssa.

time with me despite

all humans have

away from home on my own for

if my life is

crave the companionship of someone |

a family, and have a happy and

so detached from the world, longed for a family? And the woman he wanted to share that with

Jasper's chest tightened.

had shared a smile in the snow