Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

The once pristine white rose petals were now marred by the dark stain of Julien's blood.

"Let's end it here."

Julien's voice was soft, yet those four words shattered Jonah's heart into fragments.

"Julien, I will not allow you to leave me!" Every muscle in Jonah's body trembled with desperation. A ferocious rage ignited in his eyes. "I know who I love. You are not a substitute for anyone! Julien, don't leave me... I cannot let you go!" Panic coursed through him.

He cried and pleaded, desperately trying to hold Julien back. Torn between gentleness and force, he was willing to accept any outcome as long as the man he adored stayed with him.

The first time it happened, Jonah had barely survived the emotional turmoil. If it happened again, it would drive him to the brink of insanity and death.

His breathing became ragged; his bloodshot eyes blazed with determination.

With open arms, Jonah moved to embrace Julien, who had been reduced to pieces. But just as he leaned in, a sharp pain shot through his left eye.

"Don't touch me!" In a moment of uncontrolled rage, Julien had grabbed another rose, dragging its thorny stem across Jonah's face.

Jonah was fortunate to have closed his eyes just in time; otherwise, that thorn could have slashed his eyeball, leaving him blinded.

cut on Jonah's face, momentarily forgetting his own pain. Dazed, his hands trembled as the instinct to care for Jonah flickered within him. Yet he fought against it, forcing out the words, "Jonah, you need to go to the hospital-" Jonah couldn't be bothered about

it has come to this, I'm unable

eyes were vacant. All the passion that he once had in his eyes had

I'm acting as somebody else. That initial

that, he smiled. In a throaty voice, he continued, "I really envy you and him. It was thanks to him that I was able to have such

Alyssa and Sean arrived,

the expansive room, Jonah knelt, a forlorn shadow

slightly. The man before her was alive but resembled an empty

the world happened to Mr. Jonah and Dr. Lovelace?" Sean questioned anxiously. He had been probing her the entire journey there but was

Jonah for a few years when Jonah was KS Group's president. Yet, he had never seen him looking as devastated

remain composed. "Sean, wait for me outside. Let me have a talk with Jonah in

no other option

She walked to his side slowly, knelt down, and picked up the roses that had scattered across the floor, one at a time. When she picked up the greeting

was usually composed, but she could not hold back when

up such a huge commotion on such an important

they had rattled her