Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Mandy's emotional cry reverberated down the hallway.

Naturally, Remy heard her voice too. He was slightly stunned. His eyes met the teary-eyed, middle-aged woman standing a few feet away from him.

For some reason, his heart felt heavy. Even breathing stirred up some unfathomable feelings within him.

It felt just like that heavy feeling he had when he watched Alyssa, injured all over, crawling out from her car that had flipped over.

"Damien... Is that you? Damien!"

Even though Mandy was always a noble and composed person, her face was covered in tears at this very moment. She choked with sobs and had lost her composure.

"Damien... It's me, your mom! You're still alive... I can't believe that you're still alive!"

Mom?

Dumbfounded, Remy stared at the woman who was approaching him. It was as if someone had put his heart on pause. His slender fingers quivered slightly as he pinched a cigarette in between his fingers.

In the next second, the splitting pain in his head pulled him back to reality.

He stubbed out the cigarette against the balcony before disappearing before vanishing from Mandy's sight in an instant.

"Damien!" Mandy ran forward as quickly as she could.

Ultimately, she lost focus and fell heavily to the ground, scraping her knees. The pain and sadness in that moment left her unable to rise.

At the same time, from the balcony on the other side of the wall, Remy listened to Mandy's devastated cries. He took a deep breath. The muscles throughout his entire body tensed up as he tried to withstand the pain in his head. His eyes became bloodshot.

...

had a heart-to-heart talk-something they hadn't done in

that it looked like she could melt away at any moment. Even so, she tried her best to

"Dad... Don't worry."

It's true that I was really sad at first,

over between you and

a fiery gaze, he continued, "You are my daughter. Did you think I couldn't tell how you truly feel?

enough that I could die at any moment. There's no use in me trying to

Manor tomorrow to chat with Jasper. I'll

difficulties you both had to overcome to get to where you are. I don't believe that it was because of any medication or inability to process

beating. There's no way that

He understood that true

were reputable and incredibly blessed. Even Javier was inferior to

he proposed to Alyssa's mother. With Jasper, this would

Dad. I've accepted it

to hold back the anguish in her heart.

back, so there might be changes within the Beckett Group. He has to focus all his attention on

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to him. I'll just teave

by Jasper's side for three years! After so much difficulty, you're finally together. Yet, you're making the same mistakes

cannot bear to see you hurting yourself

wrenched. "You're putting him into consideration in everything you do... Why can't you just thinkabout yourself?

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