Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 76

“Wait.”

For some reason, the conversation irritated Jasper. Sternly, he asked, “Ms. White, don’t you owe Liana an apology?”

Landon sighed helplessly, resisting the urge to stuff his socks into Jasper’s mouth.

A dull pain throbbed in Alyssa’s heart. She turned around to cast him a blank stare.

Her disappointed gaze pierced Jasper’s soul.

“She didn’t do it! Alice didn’t do it!”

Just at that moment, a sweet, gentle voice cut through the air. It arrived unannounced, like lightning on a clear day, foiling the plot that had been carefully planted.

When Alyssa turned her gaze toward the source of the voice, there was a glimmer in her eyes.

“Lauren!”

a simple white dress was

curls, which

been Betty’s imaginary enemy in their family. Betty envied

always looked for new ways to

they appeared in public, she would try to make her sister look bad.

would steal

and timid. In the presence of strangers, her shoulders were always hunched,

one, aside from Mrs. Rosie, who treated Alyssa kindly. The only one

left the Becketts, she always worried

it delighted

glared fiercely at her sister. “No one was in the bathroom except Liana and her. If it wasn’t her, then who else

her!” Lauren pleaded desperately. Her

jumble.

this is none of your business. Go play somewhere else!” Sophia was

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to Jasper. She looked

nervously.

wasn’t Alice who did

you say so?” Jasper’s tone was unusually