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.

struggled to suppress the hatred within him.

with her own hands?" Silas

if he had been struck hard by

stung. She felt the air around her thinning. Her heart felt as if a

gone ballistic. However, Jasper kept his cool. The calmer he

what's going on?" Cyrus anxiously

she followed Sophia's orders to swap my mother's medication for depression. However, she swapped the medication

Javier had improved and was losing sleep over it. So, she swapped the normal supplement for a poison that was taken in small

Alyssa's eyes as her

everything in such great detail?" Out of occupational habit, Silas, the prosecutor, was eager to

it with her

Alyssa's hand securely. It was as 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

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

continued, "Then, it didn't matter how the maid tried to explain. She was the one responsible for keeping the medication. It was her who swapped it, and she had to take