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?”

I feel the same too.” He took off his

suggestive

meeting. I do wish to meet you again.”She cast a sh arp gl ance at

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

she politely replied,

it’s been a while.”

those memories were from decades ago. Jameson felt like a stranger to Alyssa when they met

remembered him as a short, skinny boy with good looks and smooth skin when he was younger. Due to his feminine

the popular kid in school. She

three boys who were all taller than her. From then

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

hope she cast into

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

you recognized me when I bumpedinto you drunk at

“Yes.”He smiled.

danger becauseyou were following me, not because you

“That’s a yes too.”

frowned.”Why didn’t you tellme who you were