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

years ago?” Jasper asked, pain and

throat clamped in

of that?

But why now?

after 13 years?

How she wished he had never remembered.

me, Alyssa!” Jasper asked, forcing

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I called myself Alice when we married?” she asked solemnly.

Jasper’s heart. Of course he

she refused to answer when he asked. He named her

Alice in

dreams did Jasper imagine that a seemingly

13 years

for so

smiled lightly. “There’s no need to, really. I never hoped you would. I’m

after all. Whether

Jasper’s breathing hitched.

nothing amiss in his complete forgetfulness of

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

kept him in her heart for 13 years, yet he had

distance, unlike him, who only wanted

out. “I … really didn’t know… If I knew,

have still

regrets about him, she

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

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

never got a chance to know

properly thank you.”

know the answer

I saved you once, and you wanted to

the past now. No

if closing a

on getting to safety

an unspoken truce between them as they waded through the thunderstorm.

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