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?”

that you must havewanted to meet me again. I feel the same too.” He took off his glasses and

a suggestive remark!”

I do wish to

little, and the hands on his knees trembled out of joy. He

aback, she politely replied,

it’s been a while.”

childhood, but those memories were from decades ago. Jameson felt like a stranger to

skin when he was

contrast, Alyss a had been the popular kid in school. She

away by beating up three boys who were all taller than her. From then on, no one dared to bully Jameson because she took him

she could recall from her childhood. Little did she know that Jameson, through the ups and downs in his later life, had never forgotten

she cast into

was not just a first love—the term failed to describe her importance to

recognized me when I bumpedinto you drunk at the

“Yes.”He smiled.

save me from danger becauseyou were following me, not because

“That’s a yes too.”

She frowned.”Why didn’t you tellme who