Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 168

Betty’s makeup–clad lace froze up as she shuddered.

“Are we close? It’s not nice to touch me all over without my permission.” Landon forcefully withdrew his arm from her hold.

“I–I’m sorry. I saw you as my brother because you’re Jasper’s friend. Nothing more than that. She worried that he might come to

her, so she had to explain hersell.

“You’re his sister, not mine. Mind your manners next time,” he dropped a frosty remark and left. He wouldn’t want a random stranger to dirty that precious shirt Alice had bought for him.

Betty clenched her fists hard. Suddenly, Landon stopped dead in his tracks, put a hand in his pocket, and squinted at her. She quickly wore a smile as her heart thumped loudly.

“Landon might be tough on the outside, but he is soft on the inside. He must care about me!” she thought excitedly.

“I can’t wrap my head around the recent fashion trends.” 1

“What?” She was taken aback.

on their teeth now. I

have lipstick on her teeth. She rushed to the restroom and bared her teeth in the mirror. She was

screamed in shame and frustration as she fell the urge to shatter the

onto the couch with his legs wide open

when I showed up. Rather shameless and cheap, don’t you think? Alice

reading the files that Xavier delivered. He cast

if you had caught the flu.” Landon narrowed

on your face.” Jasper’s face clouded as he tightened his grip on the

I’m doing okay. Better than those who can’t even step foot into Alice’s place.” Landon

As Alice’s husband of three years, Jasper was slapped in the face while standing in the rain last night.

more he thought about it, the more Incensed he

up to Jasper and placed his hands on the table. Squinting, he

her over. I want her to

blade. His gaze was piercing, as though he wanted

had treated Alice badly. She spent three years of her marriage alone. Not only that, he forced her to agree to a divorce. Jasper might be a good friend, but he was a horrible husband, and that

his knuckles paled. “Did you forget that she’s now

than with

Jasper. His breathing