Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 511

Rain, rock, mud, and fog-those were the only things Alyssa could recall before losing consciousness.

She had used the last ounce of strength in her lithe body to push the hiker up toward the patrol team. All

she hoped was that the hiker would be safe and sound.

Alyssa couldn’t call herself a competent park ranger and wear her badges if she hadn’t prepared herself

for the risk of death. She wasn’t afraid of it as long as it was a meaningful death.

Frankly, she didn’t used to be so brave. In fact, she used to whine and cry whenever her father and

stepmothers tried to bring her to the doctor for a shot.

She was 11 when she met him. That was when everything changed.

His bravado and determination were like the lighthouse she needed to guide her out from dark waters.

How he had intercepted danger to rescue her had permanently shifted her outlook on life.

witnessed how selfless one

times after they married, Alyssa still couldn’t deny

how much Jasper had changed her life for the

he had rewritten

happen

strange dream. In it, her parents and brothers celebrated her childhood birthday with her.

arms and placed her onto a mountain of presents while Silas sang her “Happy

Birthday” off-key.

cake to her lips, where she blew the candles out while Axel placed a toy gun

her hand.

fought together on the battlefield, the first time she saw him while tending to Newton, and the cold-hearted manner in which he handed her divorce

sudden pain spread out from the center of her

awake, taking loud, hurried breaths as her body came back online. The sweat and rain

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tears of relief

wasn’t for that bastard and the hurt he had caused her,

like sleep!

then, she recalled that she was still

been washed away to some unknown location, her backpack hanging limply on a

in rubble and rock off a ledge. She was nearly buried alive at