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!"

beep sounded in his ear as if everything had been reset. Darkness enveloped him, and he fell unconscious.

He wasn't sure if he was dead, but

heard footsteps approaching from behind. He turned to

an emotionless look on his face, Remy picked Alyssa up in a princess

on the island." Without even a glance at Jameson, Remy's voice dripped with barely concealed hatred. "Sir is leaving you to clean up. I'm

he looked like a man

drained of all his worth-now thrown

in the statue of the goddess closed

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

drowned out

with that, the seemingly indestructible glass shed was destroyed. Glass shards rained down, cutting Jameson's neck, cheeks, and arms. Yet