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.

endured it in

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

clumsiness of the kiss, something in her could not

she had been handed a piece of sweetness buried within sharp grains

hostage, consuming her

exploded in Jasper's temples,

his face stiffening as the agony surged through

moist from the

devils were howling and

it went numb,

of strength within him to

way he could appear normal in front of

"Don't be with Justin.

Don't meet him...

" His

Cold sweat covered him.

broken up, haven't we? You were

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

with someone else?

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

hands shook, but

for his

all I wanted to

you whether or not you want

just know that I will never harm you." After

"Earlier...

Alyssa questioned him out