Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Julien blinked. Being observant and having dated Jonah for a while, he immediately noticed his lover spacing out. "You're not

attentive. Are you feeling unwell?"

Jonah's heart sank. He denied in a raspy voice, "No. I'm fine."

"Julien, | have a favor to ask of you!" Alyssa quickly distracted Julien, whisking him away to the living room. She said to Jonah,

"Jonah, what are you doing? You should throw together sfood for Julien!"

"Sure." Jonah left without a word.

Meanwhile, Julien kept turning around to check on Jonah. Something felt amiss, but he couldn't quite put a finger on it.

Back in the living room, Alyssa laid out the pills she brought with her on the coffee table. "Julien, please run stests on the

components of this drug. You're the domain expert, not to mention you have the right equipment for it."

"What's this?" Frowning, he scrutinized the blue pills.

"There were a few consecutive cases of drug addicts dying of heart attack in Solana City, but in the post-mortem, the examiner

could not find evidence of the victims taking drugs.

the victims showed symptoms of seizure and mad behavior before their deaths,

Their deaths were horrific.

out that the victims had taken this

The Ivory Gang. Julien, please figure out if the drug carries any harmful

can."

that the case

fussed over me. | will definitely see to this

a nice guy. Jonah should never hurt

about that. I'll get back to you as soon

then. | won't be thirdwheeling any longer. I'll

seemed upset," Julien

him, just like how Jasper felt toward Alyssa. She could never

could read her mind from her

Foxy appeared to be helplessly in

the best relationship in the

fine. | guess he's still recovering from exhaustion. He's not getting

That makes sense." Julien pressed his lips remorsefully. "It was my fault for stubbornly keeping him up last night.

next time. I'll

Jonah," she said without betraying her emotions, but her

flaws and issues down the road, after decades of living together, will you think

his issues might make you look at