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.

was the first time she had witnessed how selfless one could

hurt her countless times after

Jasper had

as if he had rewritten the very stars.

to happen

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.

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

her hand.

of the battles they fought together on the battlefield, the first time she saw him while tending to Newton, and

spread out from the center of her

hurried breaths as her body came back

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alive!” she cried, tears of

for that bastard and the hurt he had caused her, she might not have woken

like sleep!

then, she recalled that she was

some unknown location, her

and rock off a