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

Jasper asked, pain and anguish

throat clamped in on itself.

call her Alice because of that? Because

But why now?

after 13

now. How she wished he

asked, forcing her to

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called myself Alice when we married?” she asked

Of course he did.

nickname because she refused to answer when he asked. He

Alice in

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

years later. She had

secret for so long, too.

like you do.” Alyssa smiled lightly. “There’s no need to, really.

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

Jasper’s breathing hitched.

there was nothing amiss in his complete forgetfulness of her or in his act of

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

for 13 years, yet he had forgotten her. All she ever did

distance, unlike him, who only wanted to shut her

“I … really didn’t know…

would have still

smile widened. Though she had her regrets

or Alice, they’re nothing more

apologize, really. I should be the

all those years ago, I never got a chance to know your

properly thank you.”

you still marry me, Alyssa?” Jasper wanted to know the answer to this. It had tortured him for

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

all in the past now. No point digging up a failed

if closing a

focus on getting to safety right now.

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

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