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.”

easy whenever I watched Rosie cook.

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gazed at the messy kitchen countertop, guilt filled his chest. “I know you must’ve been so

quickly, conflicted emotions filling

made for you. But it looks like

Give me some more time to practice.

immediately saw through his intentions.

into the kitchen in their three years of marriage. Rosie had told Alyssa it wasn’t purely because of his prejudice against her, but because he had

came from

slums he had lived in with his mother. Their house had been surrounded by

scrubbed their clothes, that

and do something he had never

boundaries for

She gently nudged Jasper away. “That’s

acting

smoke earlier.

to switch on

Lyse? Did you catch a cold?” Jasper

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I’m just allergic to smoke. I just need some fresh

Allergic… to smoke?