Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

"Say what?" Alyssa exclaimed.

Her face turned pale with shock as she leaped to her feet. Worry surged through

her, and her voice began to tremble. "Jonah, why didn't you tell me earlier? This is serious!"

"You've been really busy lately..."

"So what? Even if I collapsed from exhaustion, I'd still crawl home. He's my father!"

Overcome with anxiety, Alyssa grabbed her coat from the back of her chair and headed for the door. "Has Dad's condition stabilized? I'm on my way now!"

"Lyse, hold on. Listen to me."

Jonah exhaled. His voice grew heavy. "This time, Dad's emergency hospitalization has a little something to do with you."

Alyssa froze in her tracks. "What do you mean?"

"Dad's wives and I have been trying to distract him- spending time with him, watching shows together-because we were afraid he'd see the news about you joining Beckett Group's board and pulling out of Project A5."

expect one of his business partners to bring it up. When Dad found out,

a hand to her forehead in frustration. Her chest felt tight, and she

asleep. Lyse, when you get here, talk to him really talk to

was dull but steady. "I

toward the hospital

woken up. Jonah, Silas, and Mandy were by his side in the hospital ward. The rest

flowers in her arms. She had brought her late mother's

the lilies. While the look in his eyes softened somewhat, he still spoke furiously, "You brat.

is crucial for KS Group for the next five to ten years. Yet you... You gave

board of directors and partnered with Justin! Don't you realize how cunning that

Alyssa answered

did you do

"I..."

almost disclose her plan, though she managed to hold

tell more people about the

family, she couldn't be sure

and calculating as he was, caught even a whiff of suspicion, everything she'd done would