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.

the first time she had witnessed how

he had hurt her countless times after they married, Alyssa still

Jasper had changed her life

as if he had rewritten the very stars.

happen in a flash.

her parents and brothers

arms and placed her onto a mountain

Birthday” off-key.

her lips, where she blew the candles out while Axel placed

her hand.

her dreams, with vivid recollections of the battles they 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

sudden pain spread out from the center of her chest, flooding her head and

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

+15 BONUS

I’m alive!” she cried, tears of

caused her, she might not

like sleep!

that she was still

location, her backpack hanging limply

half-buried in rubble and rock off a ledge.