Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Jameson stopped in his tracks. A sharpness flared in his eyes as a peculiar smile rose on his face.

Silence was an answer of sorts, too.

"You ... You're the one who revealed Lyse's condition to everyone through Zoe? Did you do all that just to separate us and get revenge on me? You were willing to tear open Lyse's old wounds and torment her all to get back at me. Is this your so-called love for her, Jameson Schmidt?" exclaimed Jasper.

"What are you talking about? I'm afraid I didn't understand a single word you just said."

Jameson snickered. "Aren't you the one who ruined her for good? What does it have to do with me? Did your brain get waterlogged from standing in the rain for too long?

"Don't think I'm the only person in this world who hates you, Jasper Beckett, nor am I the only one who wants you dead. Someone as unlucky as you should just forget about Lyse and let her go."

Axel stood beside the railings on top of the building, his black windbreaker billowing in the cold night wind.

He had smoked a whole pack of cigarettes but still couldn't calm his overwhelmed emotions. His fingers trembled around the cigarette he was holding.

you in Belbanks yet, Axel?" Liam's voice rang out from Axel's phone receiver. "Did you have

Axel's grip tightened around his phone as

saying quietly, "Do not under any circumstances take rash action, Axel. Even if we were to do something, I'd rather

anything rash,

the cigarette between his lips. "Take

because he still hadn't composed himself enough to see Alyssa after knowing

like me no matter what! Only by finding her can we find the mastermind behind all this. It's of utmost

a bustling bar, staring fixedly at a photo of him and

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welled up in his chest, nearly

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