Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 272

“Why are you … here?” Alyssa was caughtby surprise. She looked adorable and innocent with the freckles on her face and a head of messy hair.

Jameson Schmidt had a smile in his eyes as he pressed his lips together.”Can’t I be your suitor?”

Her lips formed a taut line as she struggled to answer his question. He resolved the awkwardness with a gentle smile that made his question sound like a harmless joke.

“May I take a seat?” asked Jamesongentlemanly.

“Please do,” she replied graciously.

Jameson did not look much different from their first encounter. He looked refined and suave, dressed in a striped emerald couture suit and wearing a pair of gold-

rimmed glasses.

“Ms. Taylor, you are rocking a ratheradorable and unique style today.” He squinted.”You don’t have to act in front of me, though. Just be yourself.”

She coughed in awkwardness.”I don’t recall having you as my date. Why are you here?”

havewanted to meet me again. I feel the same too.”

suggestive remark!”

beencurious about you since our last meeting. I do wish

and the hands on his knees

aback, she politely replied,

it’s been a while.”

gotten along well in their childhood, but those memories were from decades

with good looks and smooth skin when he was younger. Due to his feminine looks and reserved personality, other kids mocked and ostracized

a had been the popular kid in school. She was nicknamed

three boys who were all taller than her.

know that Jameson, through the ups

she cast into his

love—the term failed to describe her importance to him. She was like the sun, igniting the world anew

me when I bumpedinto you drunk at

“Yes.”He smiled.

following me, not because

“That’s a yes too.”

tellme who you were