Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 684

Jasper was taken aback, his arms still in midair. He had wanted to comfort Alyssa with a hug.

“I only wanted to…”

“I said, stay out of this!” Alyssa had no patience to deal with him further. She stormed away from him, still

on her phone, and slammed the door as she walked out.

The warmth and tenderness Jasper had so achingly wished for disappeared just like that. Their shared

moment from earlier burst, just like a short-lived bubble floating up into the sky.

Alyssa didn’t take the antique Jasper had given her. To her, family was the most important thing right now.

Sadness filled Jasper’s chest, making his heart twinge in pain.

But now wasn’t the time to be depressed. He quickly recovered and left the room.

“Mr. Beckett, I just saw Madam leave looking absolutely pissed. Did you upset her?” Xavier asked

worriedly, a sliver of blame in his eyes. After all, his boss had always been known to get on Alyssa’s wrong

side.

“Something’s happened to Madam Lyla,” Jasper said, his gaze dark.

downstairs!” Xavier quickly took out his

news

frowned, showing Jasper the screen.

that played on Xavier’s phone. Narrowing

a closer look.

was a video from decades ago, and the resolution was blurry. Yet it was

legs. A clear liquid was flowing

shrieks and gasps of shock, followed by countless

starving wolves jumping upon fallen

Nelson’s biggest fan. She told me about how

the rumors that she was on drugs and how she even pissed herself onstage during

live broadcast,” Xavier explained.

“The internet wasn’t as powerful back then as it

phones back then capable of taking videos, so the news didn’t spread as rampantly as it

a fan and all, so she

firsthand.”

more upset

for someone like Lyla, who had been the

said that the incident was all over the

day. You could get

a couple hours later, every single shred of news about the incident

She had no idea who had bought all the papers, but they

who had done that for Lyla-Winston Taylor.

power and influence could force the entire country’s media outlets to go silent on Lyla’s