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

ago?” Jasper asked, pain and anguish flooding

clamped in on itself.

her Alice because of that?

But why now?

after 13

too late now. How she

Jasper asked, forcing

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do you remember why I called myself Alice when we married?” she

pricked Jasper’s heart. Of course he did.

nickname because she refused to answer when

in Wonderland.

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

13 years later. She had even married him.

kept it secret for so

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

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

Jasper’s breathing hitched.

amiss in his complete forgetfulness of her or in his act of saving

he couldn’t stop the guilt weighing on

yet he had forgotten

who only wanted

… really

have still

had her regrets about him,

Alyssa or Alice, they’re nothing more than just names.

apologize, really. I should be the one thanking

saved me all those years ago, I never got a chance

properly thank you.”

Jasper wanted to know the answer to this. It had tortured

saved you once,

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

a tender place in her heart away.

said, “We need to focus on getting to safety right now.

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

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