Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 588

Newton poured a glass of warm water for Jasper, handing it to his grandson, who sat across from him.

“Thank you, Grandpa.” Jasper gratefully took the glass, sitting up straight. He cupped the glass with a

hand around the body and another at the base.

“How’s your injuries, Jasper?” Newton asked gently.

“They’re mostly surface wounds but have healed a lot,” Jasper replied, masking most of his weakness and

pain. “Don’t worry about me, Grandpa. I’m stronger than you think. I was in the army once, after all.”

“Then why didn’t you fight back when your father hit you?” Newton scowled. “That vixen, Sophia, clearly

influenced him to hurt you for no good reason. Why didn’t you just snatch the whip away and hit her back?!

He’d called Jasper over just to question him about this.

Jasper looked down at his glass of water. To Newton’s surprise, he stayed silent.

Newton asked in a softer tone, “You’re my grandson, Jasper, and blood of

feel like you owe it to our family, do you?”

pressed into a

once had to survive in a filthy, narrow little slumhouse with his sick

night when those cars arrived outside the house. Rainwater had

the biting cold wind numbed their fingers.

sitting by the bed, trying to feed her mother

smart suit and tie as he

drop of

at that time when he saw this

my mom, sir!”

marched over to the bedside. Tears welled

Jasper’s

Anne! My sweet Anne! I’m so sorry it took me so long. I’m so

for you and our son.”

his mother,

family and the public. Thus, Jasper, a child born out of wedlock, was

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turn his affections elsewhere, causing his mother to commit suicide when she crumbled under her depression?

die on that cold, stormy night sick in bed or from