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.

off his coat,put it over Alyssa’s shoulders,

they were inside, he asked worriedly, “Where did

looked down, feelinglike a child who

and slowly pulled up her sleeve. His eyes

It was just a skin wound.It doesn’t hurt much anymore,

took her

Jonah. I shouldn’t have keptthis from you. I just think this is something I can handle on my own. That’s why… I didn’t want you

up at her, growling,

second, even after he’d embraced a

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

known as

his rapidly rising chest. You

what if you kill him? His employer would still be

waste this opportunity to catchthe bigger target, Jonah. That’d only make us look like

faded away. He sighed, leaned against Alyssa,