Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

"A love rival?" Alyssa rested her cheek on her palm while feeding Jasper blueberries. She mused, "It's quite unfathomable for Landon Harper to have a love rival. That's new."

Jasper snickered. "Lauren's living a secluded life because you're overprotective. She doesn't have a chance to meet with anyone outside—it's just you and your secretary. She doesn't even have a healthy social life, so what's all that talk about a love rival? You must be dreaming."

"Isn't that right?" Landon slammed a fist on the table as his voice broke from the tension.

He recalled the scene from last night where Lauren mumbled the name of this guy, Cyrus, while sleeping in his arms. How could she call out the name of another man in her dreams?

His heart immediately shattered into pieces.

Alyssa shot him a piercing glance. "Do you mean my brother, Cyrus Taylor?"

Jasper froze. He grappled with the far-fetched notion, struggling to imagine Lauren and Cyrus together.

Landon widened his eyes, looking amazed. "Oh, Lyse, how did you know? Are you God?"

"Hah, drop it." Feeling speechless, she told him, "You're an open book—I can tell from your face. I saw you standing across from Cyrus yesterday, staring at him fiercely, and I immediately knew something was wrong.

"But Mr. Harper, you shouldn't look down on the gentlemen of the Taylor family. None of them would ever get involved with unavailable women. You shouldn't imagine him as a love rival just because he spoke to Lauren."

Lyse's family to start with." Jasper hugged Alyssa by the waist

tongue out of

plunged you into a crisis." Alyssa immediately read Landon's mind. "Seriously? Did

his

discussion about the marriage in the future." Jasper put on a serious face and advised Landon, "Your priority should be sorting out

advice, Landon felt bothered. He had acknowledged Lauren as his future spouse, but the same might not be true for Lauren. He worried that, given her naivety, she might fall

his punishment for being too deep

and Alyssa finished breakfast, Xavier returned from his mission and exclaimed,

at Alyssa, Xavier professed his amazement, "The media has swarmed the entrance to the police station. The police have gathered evidence of David Schmidt sexually

He's the scum of the

to learn about David's reproachable behavior. Besides that, he was amazed by Alyssa's capability. Holding her shoulders and carefully pulling her into a hug, he praised, "Lyse,

in action. I heard a few reporters

missed the live stream. How exciting would it

accept. Now,

have blurred out the nudity. If you want, I'll get you the raw video,"

wondered if Landon was

Josh has lost two of his right-hand men." A frosty expression unfolded on Jasper's face. "He must be panicking now since he has lost his support pillars. Next, he'll be

has going for him—he lacks the talent to helm a company. Watching him fight Jameson will be as