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.

that, the victims showed symptoms of seizure and mad behavior before their deaths, like they were

Their deaths were horrific.

had taken this type of drug before

figure out if the drug carries any harmful components as soon

can."

a serious face when he learned that the

always fussed over me. | will

a nice guy. Jonah should never hurt him,

"Don't worry about that. I'll get

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

wrong with Jonah just now? He seemed upset," Julien

for him, just like how Jasper felt

he could

Foxy appeared to be helplessly in love

the best relationship in the

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

"It was my fault for stubbornly keeping

next time.

she said

after decades of living

to be, and sof his issues might make you