Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 940

Hot air blasted out of the pan. Jasper wiped away the sweat on his face and sighed. “Dammit. Burnt again.”

Only then did Alyssa see the countless burnt eggs in the trash bint beside the stove.

“Pft. The heat is too high, silly. You’d go through an entire chicken farm without succeeding at this rate,” she teased.

Jasper’s heart skipped a beat as he turned around, meeting Alyssa’s

eyes.

“Did I… wake you?” he asked nervously.

“No, my biological clock did. I don’t have a habit of sleeping in,” Alyssa replied.

She then pointed at the trash bin beside him, teasing, “You’re lucky Sean isn’t around to see this. He hates it when people waste food. If he had been here, he would have made you scoop everything back out and eat it.”

“I would be fine with that. I never wasted food during my time in the army,” Jasper replied lightly.

It wouldn’t be a first for him.

Alyssa knew how serious Jasper could be at times and that he was indeed capable of doing something like that. She hurriedly waved her hands. “I’m kidding. Don’t actually go eating that.”

think it was easy whenever I watched Rosie cook. Now that

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the messy kitchen countertop, guilt filled his chest. “I know you must’ve been so tired and put in

blinked quickly, conflicted emotions filling her

But it looks like Sean will have to buy some for us

me some more time to

saw through his intentions.

kitchen in their three years of marriage. Rosie had told Alyssa it wasn’t purely

oil that came from the kitchen area.

reminded Jasper of the slums he had lived in with his mother. Their house

hard they scrubbed their clothes,

cook for her and do something he had never done

for her.

chest. She gently nudged Jasper away. “That’s enough of terrorizing my house. Let me

her allergy acting

smoke earlier.

to switch on the hood?

wrong, Lyse? Did you catch a cold?” Jasper asked

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mumbled, “I’m fine. I’m just

Allergic… to smoke?