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!"

everything had been reset. Darkness enveloped him, and

motionless, staring at the fallen man. He wasn't sure if he was dead,

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

look on his face, Remy

Jameson, Remy's voice dripped with barely concealed hatred. "Sir is leaving you to clean up. I'm sure you have no objections, right, Mr.

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

of all his worth-now thrown

opening in the statue of the goddess closed back up

Schmidt, your life has been a big mistake. If

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

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