Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 2225

Jasper felt a pain unlike any he had ever known. It wasn't a physical agony like having flesh torn away, but a slow, excruciating torture akin to being slowly sliced by a blunt blade. It was a hundred times worse than dying instantly.

His mind raced through a chaotic sequence of images, like a black-and-white movie playing backward. He saw people retreating and leaving-Javier, Anne, Newton, Landon, Lauren, Jonah, Axel...

He reached out desperately, trying to grasp any of them, but they were slipping away, one by one.

Finally, the image settled on Alyssa's radiant face. "Lyse... Don't go..."

Tears streaming down his face, he lunged forward, wrapping his arms around her. But she dissolved into golden dust, vanishing into the frigid air.

"No!"

his ear as if everything had been reset. Darkness

wasn't sure if he was dead, but

then heard footsteps approaching from behind. He turned to see Remy emerging from the underground

on his face, Remy

have arrived on the island." Without even a glance at Jameson, Remy's voice dripped with barely concealed hatred. "Sir is leaving

looked like a man who

of all his

statue of

scoffed, laughing at himself bitterly. "Jameson Schmidt, your life has been a

he could finish, the deafening roar of a helicopter overhead drowned out his words. It hovered above, casting its

shed was destroyed. Glass shards rained down, cutting Jameson's neck, cheeks,