Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 2460

Chapter 2460

The hospital ward grew heavy with silence.

Mandy and Neil stared at Alyssa, stunned beyond words.

"M-Ms. Alyssa, you knew that man was Mr. Damien?" Neil asked, disbelief etched into his voice.

"Yes." Alyssa's reply was quiet, her lips pressed into a thin line. She lowered her gaze, her voice barely above a whisper. "We found out when Cyrus took Damien's cigarette butt for a paternity test."

Mandy approached Alyssa, her shoulders trembling slightly.

"So, you and Cyrus knew... and you both kept it from me?" Mandy said, her voice catching in her throat, tears welling up.

Alyssa felt a sharp pang in her chest. "Mandy, I'm sorry. It was my decision. Cyrus had nothing to do with it."

Mandy's tears fell freely now, her grief spilling out in raw sobs. "Do you know what it's been like for me all these years, thinking Damien was gone? Winston, Miley, Lyla, and Colene kept telling me to move on. I tried to accept that he was dead, that we'd never find his body. But I never did."

Her voice broke. "Night after night, I'd dream of Damien, drenched to the bone, standing there. 'Mom... the water's freezing...' he'd say, again and again."

Neil sighed deeply, his heart heavy. Alyssa's hands trembled as guilt gnawed at her.

Uncontrollable tears flowed down Mandy's cheeks, her eyes burning with grief and resentment. "Lyse, you knew everything, and you hid it from me. Didn't you think about how selfish that was? How unfair, how cruel?"

This outburst, these harsh words, was unprecedented from Mandy, who loved Alyssa like her own child.

precious to Mandy than her own child. But the intense pain she was

again, her

Taylor, you've watched Ms. Alyssa grow up. You know her

hard, her voice shaky.

Mandy froze.

survived a plane crash but lost his memory. He's being manipulated, a pawn in someone

by direct retaliation. That's why I kept it from you and Dad. I knew how much you both love him, and I

twisted with worry, her

her head. "I'm sorry, Mandy. I can't say. It's for your safety

I saw them," Mandy said, her hand gripping Alyssa's tightly. Her voice was laced with fear. "If this mastermind needs

her mind grappling with the new information. Damien hadn't regained his

else be trying to

of the situation

comfort Mandy. "Mandy, try not to fret.

so resilient. No one

you even know that when I took him to the hospital, the doctor said he would have

with emotion. Alyssa immediately moved

me so long to meet with Damien again. I

him, Mandy. This time, I will

Mandy's cell

gaze fell to the screen, where a blinking

Alyssa asked,

tracker on Damien's phone while he was unconscious. Solana City

sharply, silently grateful for Mandy's