Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 2330

Xavier was confused. He caught the tie bar in his hands and asked, "What's this, Mr. Beckett?

Jasper closed his eyes to rest. He tugged at his tie knot but still felt suffocated.

"It was from Sheryl," he answered.

Xavier let out a cry. "This filthy thing is from that wild woman? I don't want it!"

With a disgusted look on his face, Xavier hurled the tie bar aside. I'm already seeing someone. I don't want my girlfriend to misunderstand me."

Girlfriend?"

Yeah, Mr. Beckett. Maggie is my girlfriend."

With his eyes closed, Jasper frowned. "She's become of age?

Xavier didn't know how he should react. "She's already in university, Mr. Beckett. Am I that much of an animal in your eyes?"

Suddenly, the memory of himself and Alyssa rescuing Maggie flashed through Jasper's mind.

Just then, Xavier exclaimed in surprise, "Mr. Beckett, look!"

jolted. Standing alone before his car was Alyssa, framed against the piercing headlights, snow swirling around her. The wind tossed her dark hair, and she looked almost fragile as if the wind might carry her

out of the

Mr. Beckett." Alyssa smiled slightly at

face, which had tumed red from the cold, he could tell that she had been wandering outdoors for a very long

taste was a slight bitterness at the back of his throat. He remembered that

temperature dropped, she loved to snuggle in his arms and use his hands as her source of heat; his hands kept her warm

Even so, she didn't

lips. 'Let's chat in my

to him.

and sensible

space for this pair of ex-lovers to spend time together by getting out of the car to

birthday tomorrow," Alyssa spoke up first to break the awkward

looked askance at her.

say that he didn't need any gifts when

what

He answered in a low, deep voice, "Of

for you to

you to fulfill that promise." She clenched her hands, her gaze

surprised. He narrowed his eyes and asked, 'A

Do you remember where