Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 512

Alyssa had been raised by her three stepmothers from a young age due to her birth mother’s early passing.

Naturally, their habits, such as Colene’s horse-riding, archery, and rock-climbing hobbies, assimilated into

her own.

Fortunately, those hobbies were a lifesaver, as she couldn’t imagine how she would survive in her current

situation without them.

As Alyssa was about to reach the mountain trail above, there suddenly came rumbling by her feet. Rock

and sand snaked past her hands. Another landslide was coming fast!

“Damn it! Is this what I get for doing charity for all these years?” Alyssa yelled indignantly.

The rock beneath her feet suddenly shifted and tumbled from its ledge at that precise moment, leaving

her body dangling precariously.

“Help!” Despair and fear washed over her.

She was going to die falling, and no one would

her eye as she shut them tight, awaiting

“Alyssa!”

of hands wrapped around her wrists and

slowly opened her eyes.

staring right at her, his eyes wide and seemingly delving into her

hitched.

“J-Jasper?”

right

heart pounded violently in her

be afraid. I’m here

face, everything from fear to joy to worry, all directed right at his beating heart. He pulled her up some more, his

the ledge. If they didn’t move right now, both of them might fall to their deaths.

falling down her cheeks. “I don’t want to

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limits of strength in making it so far up here on the

saw Jasper, her last wall fell, revealing

All he wanted was

can cry all you want later. Now, just try and push yourself up!”

climbed back up the side of the mountain.

This ledge won’t hold on much longer!” Jasper