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.

the instinct to care for Jonah flickered within him. Yet he fought against it, forcing out the words,

I still love you. But now that it has come to this,

to hold him, Julien's eyes were vacant. All the

stay in this relationship, living by your side in the future will only make me feel like I'm acting as

continued, "I really envy you and him. It was thanks to

Sean arrived, Julien

expansive room, Jonah knelt, a forlorn

stumbled backward slightly. The man before her

Sean questioned anxiously. He had been probing her the entire

assisted Jonah for a few years when Jonah was KS Group's president.

wait for

brows together, Sean nodded. He had no other

the floor, one at a time. When she picked up the greeting card containing Julien's heartfelt confession, she couldn't contain herself any longer. Tears blurred her vision, smudging the elegant words. Following that, a ball of

not hold back when her loved ones were

huge commotion on such an important day was the cruelest

they had rattled her