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.

cold.”Jonah took off his coat,put it over Alyssa’s

he asked worriedly,

feelinglike

he grasped her arm and slowly pulled up her sleeve. His eyes

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

and took her hand. The careful touch made

something

a depressive silence, Jonah looked up at her, growling,

second, even after he’d embraced a more spiritual way

see a shadow of his old self again—the man who had led thousands of

all, known

rising chest. You promised

a pawn in a biggergame. So what if you

can’t waste this opportunity to catchthe bigger target, Jonah. That’d

in Jonah’s gaze slowly faded away. He sighed, leaned against Alyssa, and then