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!"

reset. Darkness enveloped

the fallen man. He wasn't sure if

turned to see Remy emerging

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

face pale. Though impeccably dressed, he looked like

been drained of all his

opening in the statue of the goddess

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

he could finish, the deafening roar of a helicopter overhead drowned out

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