Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 2357

The hot soup soaked through Jasper's clothes, and the scalding heat mirrored the intense temperature of his body at that moment.

Yet, his focus wasn't on the discomfort. He leaned forward and grabbed Alyssa by the wrists, pulling her hands toward him with firm insistence.

'Let me have a look. Do your hands still hurt?"

"Let go of me!" Alyssa struggled as tears filled her eyes.

*Stop struggling. You haven't recovered from your injuries!" Jasper's breaths became heavier as he tightened his grasp over her wrists.

He saw her tears glistening in her eyes as she waved her bandaged hands at him, her face a mixture of misery and comic helplessness. Yet, there was an undeniable adorableness about her that sparked a deep, protective instinct in him.

Memories of the past flashed in Jasper's mind.

As his gaze remained fixed on Alyssa, something dark stirred within him, a coldness he had held for so long rising to the surface.

mind blanked. He pressed his chapped lips against hers, feeling her soft, trembling mouth against his. Their noses brushed together, and he could sense the gentle dampness of her

love for the first time. He bit her tongue in his eagerness. But Alyssa-she endured it

a lifetime of hardship, she had been handed a piece of sweetness buried within sharp grains of sand, and

intense masculinity took Alyssa hostage, consuming

in Jasper's temples, and his vision blurred. He was forced to pull away, his

lips still moist from the kiss, her eyes wide

like a thousand devils were howling and tearing at each other inside his mind. He bit his

within him to suppress the demons that roiled inside. It was the only way he could appear normal in front of Alyssa, rather than

me that?" His voice was low and

were the one who ended things. What right do you

bother you to see the person who

I just don't want you to get hurt again." Jasper's words trembled with barely contained emotion. His hands shook, but no one saw. His urge to search for his pills almost consumed him. "That's all I wanted to say. It's up to you whether or not you want to heed my words. But just know that I will never harm you." After saying that, he strutted

what was that about?' Alyssa questioned him

in his tracks. He closed his eyes briefly, simply responding. "Good

me," Alyssa said with a