Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

The jaws of all three dropped in astonishment.

"Jasper, it was 20 years ago. Where did you get the physical evidence from?" Alyssa grabbed Jasper's hand.

Jasper turned his hand around and laced his fingers with hers. His voice was low and hoarse. "Do you remember when I mentioned I was investigating the maid who used to serve my mother?"

Alyssa nodded.

"She might have had a premonition before disaster struck. Before something happened to Sophia, she had intentions to escape. Xavier sent men over and managed to capture her. That's when I employed some of my tricks."

Jasper took a deep breath and continued, "Out of massive fear and to protect her son, she said some things that Sophia had never mentioned in the recording—the truth."

Jasper was a kind person. Given a choice, he wouldn't use someone's child to threaten or force his way. He wouldn't become a monster who would use malicious ways to get what he wanted.

Alyssa believed that even if the maid's lips were sealed, Jasper wouldn't have done anything to her son.

He couldn't go through with it. If he did, he would be no different from Jameson.

He struggled to suppress the hatred within him. His hand that held onto Alyssa turned as

with her own hands?" Silas and

body swayed as if he had been struck hard

thinning. Her heart felt as if a huge

else, they would have gone ballistic. However, Jasper kept his

what's going on?"

to swap my mother's medication for depression. However, she

and was losing sleep over it. So, she swapped the

welled up in Alyssa's eyes as her

detail?" Out of occupational habit, Silas, the prosecutor, was

it with her

if her touch was the only thing calming him down. "She said she noticed something two days before my mother jumped off the building. After she swapped my mother's medication, Sophia would slip in and change the medication again—unnoticed. The maid had never brought it up or dared ask a

then the maid who handled her medication would be brought away for questioning." Alyssa's heart was pounding as she

explain. She was the one responsible for keeping the medication. It was her who swapped it, and she had to take the