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.

of seizure and mad behavior

Their deaths were horrific.

this

family and The Ivory Gang. Julien, please figure out if the

can."

he learned that the case involved The Ivory Gang. He

fussed over me. | will definitely see to this

is really a nice

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

the couch. "Alright then. |

upset," Julien called out to her with a worried

Jonah and only had eyes for him, just like how Jasper felt toward Alyssa. She could

he could read her mind

Their Foxy appeared to be helplessly in

the best relationship in the world,

he's fine. | guess he's still recovering

my fault for stubbornly keeping

time.

your relationship with Jonah," she said

down the road, after decades of living together, will you think differently of him? He

issues might