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.

without warning, his mind blanked. He pressed his chapped lips against hers, feeling her soft, trembling mouth against his. Their noses brushed together, and he could

her tongue in his eagerness. But Alyssa-she endured it in silence. As much as

It was as if, after a lifetime of hardship, she had been handed a piece of sweetness buried

hostage, consuming her from the inside

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

her lips still moist from the kiss, her eyes

like a thousand devils were howling and tearing at each other inside his mind. He bit his tongue until it went numb,

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

promise me that?" His voice

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

bother you to see the person who was once yours with someone

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

was that about?' Alyssa questioned him out of

closed

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