Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Rose stood behind Silas, her heart initially unsettled. Her lips were pressed thinly together.

However, she nearly broke into a smile after hearing Silas' remark.

Silas possessed a formidable ability to dismantle a convict in court and ruthlessly exploit someone's vulnerabilities with his words.

"Nonsense! I've never had my face done!" Lydia retorted, hastily covering her stiffened face, a mix of shame, anger, and guilt consuming her.

Silas shook his head. "It's not your fault for aging, but it's not right to run around scaring people off with that face either."

Lydia seethed with outrage, feeling her blood boil at his audacity.

"Who are you to Rose?" Jamie interjected, clinging to her mother and demanding an answer.

"Who am I to Rose?" Silas mused, touching the inside of his cheek with his tongue before turning to Rose with a serious expression. "Ms. Emerson, she wants to know my role in your life."

Rose met his gaze, her heart pounding in her chest.

myself your boyfriend," Silas announced with a wide smile, a

Lydia's and

this sophisticated man be Rose's

cheeks flushed instantly. She looked down shyly, afraid

reached for her cold hand, intertwining his

bullying Rosie earlier because I wanted to witness the extent of your cruelty and shamelessness. I wanted to

It's truly eye-opening to see both of you devils in action," he

Rosie?

the moisture from her eyes, feeling a

the Emersons. I don't think this has

mine, so that makes her problems mine as well.." Silas rubbed

never spoken

"She's the illegitimate offspring of the Emersons. Her mother seduced my father and bore

embraced her as family, but Rose, despite our kindness, turned her back on us after gaining some fame for herself. She wouldn't even deign