Can’t Win Me Back

The hot soup soaked through Jasper's clothes, and the scalding heat mirrored the intense temperature of his body at that moment.

Yet, his focus wasn't on the discomfort.

He leaned forward and grabbed Alyssa by the wrists, pulling her hands toward him with firm insistence.

"Let me have a look.

Do your hands still hurt?" "Let go of me!" Alyssa struggled as tears filled her eyes.

"Stop struggling.

You haven't recovered from your injuries!" Jasper's breaths became heavier as he tightened his grasp over her wrists.

He saw her tears glistening in her eyes as she waved her bandaged hands at him, her face a mixture of misery and comic helplessness.

Yet, there was an undeniable adorableness about her that sparked a deep, protective instinct in him.

Memories of the past flashed in Jasper's mind.

As his gaze remained fixed on Alyssa, something dark stirred within him, a coldness he had held for so long rising to the surface.

Then, without warning, his mind blanked.

He pressed his chapped lips against hers, feeling her soft, trembling mouth against his.

Their noses brushed together, and he could sense the gentle dampness of her skin.

Through their tangled breaths, it was clear—Jasper's kissing was awkward, almost painful, like a teenager clumsily exploring love for the first time.

He bit her tongue in his eagerness.

Alyssa— she endured it in

kiss, she couldn't help

of the kiss, something in her could not

if, after a lifetime of hardship, she had been handed a piece of sweetness buried within sharp grains of sand, and she was willing

Alyssa hostage,

exploded in Jasper's temples, and

forced to pull away, his face

still moist from the kiss, her

a thousand devils were howling and tearing at each other inside his

numb, desperately trying to calm the chaos

ounce of strength within him to suppress the demons

could appear normal in front of Alyssa, rather than a creature dependent on medication to retain his

"Don't be with Justin.

Don't meet him...

that? " His voice was low and

Cold sweat covered him.

broken up, haven't we? You were the one

to do now?" Alyssa's eyes were red, and she provoked him deliberately, a

you to see the person who was once yours with someone else? Are you bothered, or do you still care for

hurt again." Jasper's words

but

to search for his

all I

not you want to heed

that I will never harm you." After saying that, he strutted

"Earlier...

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