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?

to respond. When she was with him, she

very mundane compared to Liana, who knew how to play the piano, dance, and sing. Besides being gentle, obedient, and pretty, Alice had no

brightly like a diamond after leaving him? She exuded confidence now. And her previously unknown

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

walk with me. Other times, she would accompany me in the study for the entire afternoon,

could tell she had more than ten

and sighed. “She’s so much better than that decadent Gardner girl. But

the hand fan. There was one meaningful and beautifully written prose on it. It said, “If I were young

writing and style looked identical

He also recalled hearing Alice’s footsteps in the corridor when he was leaving Alyssa’s office

no way Alyssa and Alice were one and the same person, right? How could it be?

Yoarkley. He was having a meal with his father and Silas. He reported on the progress from

listening. A pleased expression appeared on his stern face. His eldest son was good at everything but was too religious. No amount of power, fame, or wealth could stop him from becoming a pastor. Why was he so

Group’s soup like this.” Winston took a sip of red wine and savored its taste. “Don’t you always