Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

"What?" Enraged, Alyssa snapped impatiently, "Son of a bitch! How dare they challenge me when I'm still pissed at them? It's time to teach them a lesson!"

"Jonah is with Winston. I haven't informed them about the Lovelaces yet." The look in Jasper's eyes hardened. He whispered, "We all know the reason the Lovelaces are here.

"Jonah ought to refrain from appearing during this delicate period. The same goes for Winston.

Otherwise, the Lovelaces would make a greater fuss about it. God knows what they'd resort to doing."

"Hah! Try me." Her eyes were filled with rage when she recalled the suffering that the Lovelaces inflicted on Julien. "Julien is a kind young man who got beaten up all because he wanted to treat Winston.

"The Lovelaces clearly treat Julien as their punching bag! How dare they call themselves his family? They have no right to!"

the Lovelaces. As an outsider, it's not

the Lovelaces, and I'll lend a helping hand at the crucial moment to prevent any

Y-You..." She almost blurted out her honest thoughts. Biting her lips, she grabbed his clean and crisply-ironed

his gaze. His hot breath

outsider." Her voice was soft and tender.

He said to her in a warm and deep voice, "I will always be your

address him as her husband. Any ordinary couple would exchange such terms of endearment easily, but he dared not request it

had been through. She was once his legal spouse but lived in loneliness like a widow, pining for his return.

swallowed hard

Julien had collected himself and approached them calmly, "Lyse, Jasper,

way!" Looking worried, Alyssa quickly shot down the suggestion. "Your family nearly beat you to death the last time.