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.

pressed his chapped lips against hers, feeling her soft, trembling mouth against his. Their noses

breaths, it was clear-Jasper's kissing was awkward, almost painful, like a teenager clumsily exploring love for the first time. He bit her tongue in his eagerness. But Alyssa-she endured it in

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

Alyssa hostage, consuming her from

a sharp pain exploded in Jasper's temples, and his vision blurred. He was forced to pull away, his face stiffening as the agony surged

him, her lips still moist from the kiss, her eyes

at each other inside his mind. He bit his tongue until it went

ounce of strength within him 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

be with Justin. Don't meet him... Can you promise me

the one who ended things. What

"Does it bother you to see the

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

Alyssa questioned

his tracks. He closed

you are so good at tormenting me," Alyssa said with a wry smile, watching as