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.

in a softer tone, “You’re my grandson,

it to our family, do

into a thin line.

to survive in a filthy, narrow little slumhouse with

mother. It was a stormy night when those cars arrived outside the house.

the biting cold wind numbed their fingers.

bed, trying to feed

suit and tie as he walked into the room. Not

had a drop of

in mind at that time when he saw this

Please save my mom,

to the bedside.

he hugged Jasper’s thin and sickly

so sorry it took me so

you and

father’s devotion to his mother, insisting on marrying her no

the public. Thus, Jasper, a

+15 BONUS

If he did, why would he turn his affections elsewhere, causing his mother

often wondered whether it would have been better for his mother to die on that cold, stormy night sick in bed or from the torturous existence the love of her life had caused