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 anguish flooding

throat clamped in on itself.

because of that? Because he

But why now?

after

now. How she wished he had never remembered.

Alyssa!” Jasper asked, forcing

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I called myself Alice when we married?” she asked

Jasper’s heart. Of course

that nickname because she refused to answer when he asked. He named her

Alice in

in his wildest dreams did Jasper imagine that

intertwining their lives 13 years later. She

for so long, too.

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

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

Jasper’s breathing hitched.

nothing amiss in his complete forgetfulness of her or in his

ago. Yet, he couldn’t stop

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

only wanted to shut her out.

really didn’t know… If I knew,

would have still divorced

regrets about

“Whether I’m Alyssa or Alice, they’re nothing more than just names. It wouldn’t

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

got a

properly thank you.”

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

I saved you once, and you wanted to pay me back?”

Jasper. It’s all in the past now. No point

closed her eyes, as if closing a tender place in

she said, “We need to focus on getting to safety right now. I’m

to be an unspoken truce between

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