Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 122

“I tried pursuing my true love, only to be badly scarred.” Alyssa tasted bitterness on her lips. She

wore a crushed expression. “I met the right person at the wrong time. I’d never love again.”

Jonah furrowed his brows, concerned for his sister, who had given up on hope at her tender age. He tried a different approach and chuckled good–naturedly.

“Lyse, chin up! You must have fallen hard for Jasper because you saw something in him. You didn’t waste your youth on him. What can we say other than the two of you aren’t destined for

each other.”

“I thought I had good taste in men. I thought my lover was the perfect man. Looking back, I must have been blind…”

Alyssa’s phone vibrated. It was a call from Sean.

“Sean, what’s wrong?” She picked up the call.

“Ms. Alyssa! I finally got hold of you. The signal on your side is so crappy!” Sean gulped in excitement and went on, “Check Twitter’s livestream feed now! Betty Beckett is live–streaming a press conference. She’s offering a public apology to our hotel employee.”

“What?” Her eyes widened, and she shot up with a shocked expression. The gloom and doom from before was gone.

“It was a sudden press conference. We think the Beckett Group plans to get it over with to minimize the fallout. There are five million viewers on the live stream, and the number keeps climbing!

on that public apology or kept its silence to spare the humiliation. Look at that cheap setup and the embarrassing scale! It’s very unlike Beckett Group and nothing like the

wouldn’t have caved in, given how combative she had behaved yesterday. Something must have happened between then and now, which

daughter out to dry, especially with Sophia around. Who

her head vehemently to shake off the thought. However, no one else in the Beckett Group had the power to force Betty into submission other than

would

up and watched the

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moment, Betty stood on stage facing the reporters in a black dress.

flashed

Karma’s a bitch! What’s in their mind,

on makeup? She must be st* pid to put on makeup at this press

thought into it if

dumb but pretty

dumb. I can’t agree

the negative comments as a devious grin crept onto

impulsively went off on an innocent hotel employee.

in said employee and nearly

actions and

speech, Betty put on a pitiful face and shed some

I am an ordinary individual just like you.

my emotions under check. I now suffer from

I’m on the

the wrong, but it is