Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 44

The drama ended with Jasper promising not to meddle in the Gardner Group’s business.

After Sophia and Javier left, Newton looked around at the mess in anger. “What a shame! All the men in our family just have to fall for those scheming Gardner women!”

Jasper bent down to pick up the things on the floor while his mind spun. Could someone have replaced Jonah at the meeting in Yoarkley?

But he knew his father wouldn’t have recognized the wrong person. They had fought twice at a shopping mall. There was no way Newton could have been mistaken unless he was showing early signs of dementia.

Jasper picked up a hand fan and asked, “Grandpa, is this yours?” Newton sighed and said, “Just look at me. I must have lost my senses in anger. Bring it to me.”

Newton’s gaze softened, and he said, “Alice made me this fan herself. The patterns and calligraphy are all her own work.”

Alice knew calligraphy? She also knew how to draw?

how to respond. When she was with him, she was

who knew how to play the piano, dance, and sing. Besides being gentle, obedient, and pretty, Alice had no other talents.

why had she started shining brightly like a diamond after leaving him? She exuded confidence now. And her previously unknown abilities were being revealed

but was

Alice would visit me every weekend and sometimes go for a walk with me. Other times, she would accompany me in the study for the entire afternoon, but she didn’t mind. She would read

The moment she put pen to paper, I could tell she had more than ten years of experience. She wrote with poise and skill.

that decadent Gardner girl. But alas, you’re blinded

and opened the hand fan. There was one meaningful and beautifully written prose on it. It said, “If I were young again, I would make a mountain

swept over the two lines of words intently. Her writing and style looked identical to the calligraphy

in charge of. He also recalled hearing Alice’s footsteps in the corridor when he was leaving

person, right? How could it be? Alice was so naive and innocent. It was impossible for her to be cunning like

was having

son was good at everything but was

you to suddenly spoil the Beckett Group’s soup like this.” Winston took a sip of red wine and savored its taste. “Don’t you always advocate dealing with problems peacefully? Why did you use