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.

she endured it in

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

clumsiness of the kiss, something in

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

Alyssa hostage, consuming

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

his face stiffening as

moist from the kiss,

like a thousand devils were howling and tearing at each other

tongue until it went numb, desperately trying to

summoned every ounce of strength within him to suppress the

front of Alyssa, rather than a creature dependent on

"Don't be with Justin.

Don't meet him...

you promise me that? " His voice

Cold sweat covered him.

up, haven't we? You were the one

do now?" Alyssa's eyes were red, and she provoked

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

want you to get hurt again." Jasper's words trembled with

but no one

for his pills

I wanted

you whether or not you want to heed my

that I will never harm you." After

"Earlier...

questioned him out of