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.

lipstick on their teeth now. I

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

as she fell the urge

slumped onto the couch with his legs wide open in a

is wild. She was eyeing me and touching me everywhere when I showed up. Rather shameless

that Xavier delivered. He cast an Indifferent look at his friend. “Why

wondering if you had caught the flu.” Landon narrowed his eyes and placed

that smug look on your face.” Jasper’s face clouded as he

step foot into Alice’s place.” Landon leisurely puffed a

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

thought about it, the more

he rose from the couch. He went up to Jasper and placed his hands on the table. Squinting, he stared into Jasper’s

over. I

the shimmer of a blade. His gaze was piercing, as though he wanted to dissect

had treated Alice badly. She spent three years of her marriage alone. Not only that, he forced her to

his chest tighten as his knuckles paled. “Did you forget

than with

Jasper. His