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.

soft, trembling mouth against his. Their noses brushed together, and he could sense the

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

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

took Alyssa hostage, consuming her from

was

at him, her lips still moist

devils were howling and tearing at each other inside his mind. He bit his tongue until it

only way he could appear normal in front of Alyssa, rather than a creature

Can you promise me that?" His voice was low and strained. Cold sweat covered

one who ended things. What right do you have to tell me what to

provoked him deliberately, a bitter smile playing on her lips. "Does it bother you to see the

once lovers. 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

was that about?' Alyssa questioned him out of

He closed his eyes

tormenting me," Alyssa said with a wry smile, watching as he walked