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

the first time. He bit her tongue in his eagerness. But Alyssa-she endured it in silence. As much as this

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

masculinity took Alyssa hostage, consuming her

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

at him, her lips still moist from the kiss,

like a thousand devils were howling and tearing at each other inside his mind. He bit his tongue until it went numb, desperately trying to calm the chaos

It was the only way he could appear normal in front of Alyssa, rather than a creature dependent on medication to

Can you promise me that?" His voice

haven't we? You were the one who ended things. What right do you have to tell me

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

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

what was that about?' Alyssa questioned him out

in his tracks. He closed his

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