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!"

sounded in his ear as if everything had been reset. Darkness

the fallen man. He wasn't sure

from behind. He turned to see Remy emerging from the underground

on his face, Remy picked Alyssa up in a princess

dripped with barely concealed hatred. "Sir is leaving you to clean up. I'm sure you have no

pale. Though impeccably dressed, he looked like a man who

all his worth-now thrown

in the statue of the

himself bitterly. "Jameson Schmidt, your life has been a big

of a helicopter overhead drowned out his words. It

a thunderous crash, and with that, the seemingly indestructible glass shed was destroyed. Glass shards rained down, cutting