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

this was a terrible kiss, she couldn't

kiss, something in her

a piece of sweetness buried within sharp grains of sand, and she was willing to swallow it

intense masculinity took Alyssa hostage, consuming her

a sharp pain exploded in Jasper's temples, and

face

moist from the kiss, her

howling and

numb, desperately

within him to

of Alyssa, rather than

"Don't be with Justin.

Don't meet him...

me that? "

Cold sweat covered him.

broken up, haven't we? You were the

to tell me what to do now?" Alyssa's eyes were red, and she provoked him deliberately, a bitter smile playing on

who was once yours with someone else? Are you bothered, or do you still care for me?"

don't want you to get hurt again." Jasper's words trembled with barely contained

but

to search for his

I wanted to

or not you want to heed my

will never harm you." After saying that, he

"Earlier...

Alyssa questioned