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

as this was a terrible kiss, she couldn't help

clumsiness of the kiss, something in her could not pull

of hardship, she had been handed a piece of sweetness buried within sharp

intense masculinity took Alyssa hostage, consuming

sharp pain exploded in Jasper's temples, and his vision

away, his face stiffening as

him, her lips still moist

were howling and

his tongue until it went numb, desperately trying to calm the chaos

him to

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

"Don't be with Justin.

Don't meet him...

" His voice was low

Cold sweat covered him.

haven't we? You were the one

you have to tell me what to do now?" Alyssa's eyes were red,

who was once yours with someone else? Are you

to get hurt again." Jasper's

shook, but

for his pills almost

I

whether or not you want to

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

"Earlier...

about?" Alyssa questioned him