Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 257

“Miss … Ms. Alyssa has gone to bed, Mr.Jonah,”Sean muttered.

“Your balls must be growing bigger whileyou’re away from my side, Sean. Are you seriously lying to me on her behalf now?”Jonah rarely got angry, but when he did, he was a menacing force.

Jonah then said, “I’ll repeat myself. Pass the phone to Alyssa. Or else you’ll be removed from your station right away!”

Alyssa chewed on her lip, her heart beating fast in her chest as she took the phone and put it up to her ear.

“Jo-Jonah.”

Jonah took a deep breath, as if suppressing some intense emotion.”Come outside. We need to talk.”

…

Alyss a walked out of her house, her heart in her throat as she went up to Jonah’s Aston Martin by the road.

The man remained stoic and still against the car, his gray suit making him seem like some sullen god. All Alyssa could think of right now was how terrified she was.

“Jonah,”she murmured.

it over Alyssa’s shoulders, then

asked

…” Alyssa looked down, feelinglike a child

and slowly pulled up her sleeve. His eyes filled

a skin wound.It doesn’t hurt much anymore, either.”Alyssa reassured him. She didn’t want

her arm down and took her hand. The careful touch made her feel

sorry, Jonah. I shouldn’t have keptthis from you. I just think this is something I can handle on my

at

had returned in a split second, even after he’d embraced a more spiritual way

his old self again—the man who had led thousands of men in the underground, the one feared

all, known as

into his rapidly rising chest. You promised not to return to that path

was just a pawn in a biggergame. So what if you kill him? His employer would

catchthe bigger target, Jonah. That’d only make

against Alyssa, and then handed her a brown envelope from the front