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.

she had witnessed how selfless one could

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

couldn’t deny just how much Jasper had changed her life for the

he had rewritten the very stars.

to happen in a flash.

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

placed her onto a mountain of presents while Silas sang her

Birthday” off-key.

to her lips, where she blew the candles out while

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

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

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

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she cried, tears of relief falling

and the hurt he had caused her, she might

like sleep!

then, she recalled that she was still in danger.

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

half-buried in rubble and rock off a ledge. She