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.

coat,put it over Alyssa’s shoulders, then led her

they were inside, he asked worriedly, “Where

looked down, feelinglike a child who had

her sleeve. His eyes filled with anger when he saw the white gauze wrapped around her

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

her

is something I can

a depressive silence, Jonah looked up at her,

split second, even after he’d

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

all, known as

Jonah.” Alyssa huggedhim tightly, nuzzling into his rapidly rising chest. You promised not to return to that path now

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

target, Jonah. That’d only

away. He sighed, leaned against Alyssa, and then handed