Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 513

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It was as though Jasper was adrift in a pool of pure astonishment, and the fact that the ledge beneath

them was falling apart only enhanced this surreal feeling.

“Hurry, Alice!” he cried, resurrecting a name that had been dormant in his mind for years.

Alyssa jolted in shock. The call of that name seemed to give her a boost of adrenaline. She was able to

push herself up on the ledge at the last second, right into Jasper’s arms.

He held her close in his arms, keeping her safe.

A thunderous boom echoed through the air.

Just as the rocky ledge disintegrated and tumbled down the mountainside, Jasper deftly rolled aside,

narrowly escaping the peril.

“Fuck!” he hissed in pain when his back collided with a boulder. The intensity of the pain led to an

immediate outbreak of sweat on his skin.

“Are you hurt?” Alyssa asked worriedly, noticing how pale he was.

Jasper shook his head, his voice steady as he reassured, “I’m okay.”

Alyssa heaved a sigh of relief, falling back against his chest. By now, both were thoroughly drenched and

shivering from the cold.

“Why… Why didn’t you tell me?” Jasper asked hoarsely, gazing at her.

“What?” Alyssa avoided his gaze.

“Why didn’t you tell me that we met 13 years ago? Why didn’t you tell me you were the girl I saved all

pain and

throat clamped in on

he call her Alice because of that? Because he suddenly

But why now?

only after 13

too late now. How she wished

Alyssa!” Jasper asked, forcing

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myself Alice when we married?” she

heart. Of course he did.

she refused to answer when he asked. He named

in Wonderland.

his wildest dreams did Jasper imagine that a seemingly trivial and long-forgotten

their lives 13 years later.

it secret for so long, too.

no need to, really. I never hoped

passerby in your life, after all. Whether it was 13 years, three

Jasper’s breathing hitched.

nothing amiss in his complete forgetfulness of her or in his act of saving her

years ago. Yet, he couldn’t stop the guilt weighing

heart for 13 years, yet he had

unlike him, who only

“I … really

would have still divorced me,

Though she had her regrets

or Alice, they’re nothing more than just names. It wouldn’t change our

don’t need to apologize, really. I should be

those years ago, I never got a

properly thank you.”

still marry me, Alyssa?” Jasper wanted to know the answer to

end. “Is it just because I saved you once, and you wanted

in the past now. No

a tender place in her

“We need to focus on getting to safety

an unspoken truce between them as they

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