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?

moment, and he didn’t know how to respond.

mundane compared to Liana, who knew how to play the piano, dance, and sing. Besides being gentle, obedient, and pretty,

him? She exuded confidence

her best, but Jonah did? So she didn’t love him, but was only fulfilling her duties – as his

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 beside me or write calligraphy.

more than ten years of experience. She wrote with poise and skill. Her graceful air tells me

sighed. “She’s so much better than that decadent Gardner girl. But alas, you’re blinded by love

There was one meaningful and beautifully written prose on it. It said, “If I were young again, I would make

gaze swept over the two lines of words intently. Her writing and style looked identical to the calligraphy hanging in Alyssa’s office, the one she had wanted to gift

Alice at the hotel Alyssa was in charge of. He also recalled hearing Alice’s footsteps in the corridor

one and the same person, right? How could it be? Alice was so naive and innocent. It

trip in Yoarkley. He was having a meal with his father and Silas. He reported on

but was too religious. No amount of power, fame, or wealth could stop him from becoming a pastor. Why was he so

it’s not like 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?