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.

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

the first time. He bit her tongue in his eagerness. But Alyssa-she endured it in silence. As much as this was a terrible kiss, she couldn't help but

could not pull away. It was as if, after a lifetime of hardship, she had been handed a

intense masculinity took Alyssa hostage,

vision blurred. He was forced to pull away, his

lips still moist from the kiss,

other inside his mind. He bit his tongue until it went numb, desperately trying to calm the chaos

to suppress the demons that roiled inside. It was the only way he could appear normal in front of Alyssa, rather than a creature dependent on medication to retain his

with Justin. Don't meet him... Can you promise me that?" His voice was low and strained. Cold sweat covered

You were the one who ended things. What right

it bother you to see the person who was once yours with someone else? Are you bothered, or do you still care for

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

that about?' Alyssa questioned him out

stopped in his tracks. He closed his eyes briefly, simply

Alyssa said with a