Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 517

No love lingering on.

Alyssa couldn’t lie. Pain swept through her chest when she said those words out loud.

This pain had become a familiar companion. It was a constant presence in her three years of marriage to Jasper, and she often worried it might trigger a heart attack. It struck her more often than the occasions

when Jasper spent time with her.

“What’s the point of asking all this now, Jasper? Do you still expect me to feel the same way for you and not move on?” Alyssa asked weakly. She rarely appeared so fragile in front of others.

She continued, “I’ve loved you for 13 years. Tell me, how many more years could I possibly sacrifice? I

can’t bring myself to love you anymore. I’m afraid to.”

She was scared of loving anyone else at this point.

It felt like someone was squeezing Jasper’s heart. Painful emotion rose like a wave in his throat, cutting

his breath off.

Not only had he

had also ruined

he would be defeated by her answer

he still tried.

to you?” Alyssa said softly. “I was telling the truth when I said I loved you,

love you anymore.”

Jasper’s eyes were hot with unshed tears. He held her hand. It felt so cold. He couldn’t keep

warm anymore.

you one.

request isn’t too

was clear she was setting up boundaries between them

but she had fallen asleep on

did, her flushed cheeks standing out on her pallid complexion, reminiscent

closer, reminiscing on the countless chances he had before to

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those chances by already. So he was going

as he

blame himself for how things had turned

phone pick up any signal. Though Jasper wanted this moment to last forever, he knew it couldn’t, not with Alyssa running a high fever.

feeling for her temperature and