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.

declared, his eyes reddening. He struggled to suppress the hatred within him.

her own hands?" Silas and Cyrus'

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air around her thinning. Her heart felt as if a huge rock was on

Jasper kept his cool. The calmer he was, the more her heart

on?" Cyrus

mother's medication for depression. However, she swapped the medication with supplements,

she swapped the normal supplement for a poison that was taken in small amounts daily but can cause heart paralysis and death over

eyes as her

great detail?" Out of occupational habit, Silas, the

it with her own

off the building. After she swapped my mother's medication, Sophia would slip in and change

of heart paralysis, then the maid who handled her medication would be brought away for

She was the one responsible for keeping the medication. It was her who