Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

It was as if something was stuck in Javier's throat as he pointed at his son's face. His high and mighty demeanor was slowly compromised. "Jasper, you ungrateful bastard!

"If I was putting on a show, I wouldn't have gone against the majority and suffered the pressure to bring you and your mother back to the Beckett Group from the slums.

"If it weren't for me, both of you wouldn't have died on the smelly and nasty streets. Have you forgotten how sick your mother was? She didn't have a single dime on her to go to the hospital for treatment.

"She had no way to support you. If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have recovered from her sickness. How on Earth would you have lived the cushy life you have now?"

Alyssa watched as Jasper, feeling wronged, received a baseless accusation. As a bystander, her heart burned with fire. She felt her blood boiling in her as her fists clenched.

Until now, Javier wasn't speaking to Jasper as a husband or a father. He was still on his high horse, thinking he offered charity to Jasper and his mother, a holier-than-thou capitalist.

Everything he said sounded like it made sense. However, everything was hinted toward one thing— Jasper and his mother were not from the world as he was.

He was the one who had been kind and gracious enough to help them escape from the cheap, dirty, and smelly slum. With a move of his finger, they could enter his world.

superiority was more humiliating and angering than profanities and

who you are today. You wouldn't be where you are today without me. Would you even have the privilege to be so rude and rebellious to me?"

for this, would you ever remember a pitiful woman who was carrying your baby wandering with no power or status to her name? Would you even remember she

He was terrifyingly cold as he continued to mock Javier, "I have to thank Grandpa for his nurture and care and my mother's strong body for who I

You

utterly crumbled. Outraged, he raised his hand and was about to

unfazed. His terrifyingly glistening eyes carried an intimidating sense

Everyone was flabbergasted.

pain on his

and stood right in front of Jasper. She aggressively grabbed Javier's wrist and continued

"Mr. Javier!"

four bodyguards were pale from terror. They

didn't even blink and

meek as she always was. Like a porcupine, her quills stood up, protecting the man