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

at the fallen man. He wasn't sure if he was dead, but deep down, he was

He turned to

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

even a glance at Jameson, Remy's voice dripped with barely concealed hatred. "Sir is leaving you to clean up. I'm sure you have

motionless, his face pale. Though impeccably dressed, he looked like a man who had been thoroughly

had been drained of all

the statue of the goddess closed

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

finish, the deafening roar of a helicopter overhead drowned out his

was destroyed. Glass shards rained down, cutting