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.

and mad behavior before their deaths, like they were

Their deaths were horrific.

out that the victims had taken this type of drug before their deaths. This

Colene's family and The Ivory Gang. Julien, please figure out if the drug

can."

face when he learned that the case involved The

helped me, and Colene has always fussed over me.

a nice guy. Jonah should never hurt him,

worry about that. I'll get back to

rose from the couch. "Alright then. | won't be thirdwheeling

just now? He seemed upset," Julien called out to

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

he could read her mind from her

heartache. Their Foxy appeared to be helplessly in love

the best relationship in the world,

lied, "Oh, he's fine. | guess he's still recovering from

remorsefully. "It was my fault for stubbornly keeping him up last night.

next time. I'll

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

down the road, after decades of living together, will you think differently of him? He might not

issues might make you look at him in a