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.

her, and

I'm sorry." The darkness in Justin's eyes hid any trace of emotion

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

marked by a

I treated

four years his senior, a brother who had always been like a father

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

standing by him when the

was also the one who had put his own life on the line to help

the one sitting in the wheelchair today, unable

can see, I'll be bound to this wheelchair for the rest of my

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

that I

Alyssa.

time with me

humans

away from home on my own

myself if my life is just going to drift away

crave the companionship of someone |

a family, and have a

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

Jasper's chest tightened.

and Justin had shared a smile in the snow -covered courtyard, their