Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Mandy's emotional cry reverberated down the hallway.

Naturally, Remy heard her voice too. He was slightly stunned. His eyes met the teary-eyed, middle-aged woman standing a few feet away from him.

For sreason, his heart felt heavy. Even breathing stirred up sunfathomable feelings within him.

It felt just like that heavy feeling he had when he watched Alyssa, injured all over, crawling out from her car that had flipped over. "Damien... Is that you? Damien!" Even though Mandy was always a noble andposed person, her face was covered in tears at this very moment. She choked with sobs and had lost herposure.

"Damien... It's me, your mom! You're still alive... I can't believe that you're still alive!" Mom? Dumbfounded, Remy stared at the woman who was approaching him. It was as if someone had put his heart on pause. His slender fingers quivered slightly as he pinched a cigarette in between his fingers.

In the next second, the splitting pain in his head pulled him back to reality.

He stubbed out the cigarette against the balcony before disappearing before vanishing from Mandy's sight in an instant. "Damien!" Mandy ran forward as quickly as she could.

Ultimately, she lost focus and fell heavily to the ground, scraping her knees. The pain and sadness in that moment left her unable to rise.

At the stime, from the balcony on the other side of the wall, Remy listened to Mandy's devastated cries. He took a deep breath. The muscles throughout his entire body tensed up as he tried to withstand the pain in his head. His eyes becbloodshot.

In the hospital ward, Winston and Alyssa had a heart-to-heart talk-something they hadn't done in a while.

"Dad... Don't worry." Alyssa's hospital gown hung loosely over her small frame. Her face was so pale that it looked like she could melt away at any moment. Even so, she tried her best to force a smile on Winston.

"I'm fine. It's true that I was really sad at first, but now... It's all over." "It's over between you and Jasper?" Winston grasped onto Alyssa's chilly hands tightly. With a fiery gaze, he continued, "You are my daughter. Did you think I couldn't tell how you truly feel? I'm just old, not senile or blind!" Alyssa choked, "Dad..." Winston sighed, "I'm old enough that I could die at any moment. There's no use intrying to keep my pride." With a troubled look on his face, Winston clenched his teeth. He continued, "I will go to Seaview Manor tomorrow to chat with Jasper. I'll see if there's a chance for you both to get back together.

"You're both so in love with one another. I've seen how many difficulties you both had to ovee to get to where you are. I don't believe that it was because of any medication or inability to process emotions.

"He's still alive; his heart is still beating. There's no way that brat can just fall out of love like that!" He had experience being in love. He understood that true love would only end when one died.

The Taylor family's ancestors were reputable and incredibly blessed. Even Javier was inferior to them.

Winston humbled himself only once in his entirety of living-when he proposed to Alyssa's mother. With Jasper, this would be his second thumbling himself.

"No need for that, Dad. I've accepted it already." Alyssa forced herself to hold back the anguish in her heart. She smiled bitterly.

"Based on Jasper's current าวน์ condition, he should focus on recuperating. Moreover, Justin is back, so there might be changes, within the Beckett Group. He has to focus all his attention on his family feuds. I don't want to be a no u distraction to him. I'll just teave the rest up to fate." en.kikistories "Oh, silly... You once lived in misery by Jasper's side for three years! After so much difficulty, you're finally together. Yet, you're making the smistakes again? "You are my precious daughter. I cannot bear to see you hurting yourself and putting yourself down like this!" Winston's heart wrenched. "You're putting him into consideration in everything you do... Why can't you just think about yourself? Jasper no longer loves you, so what will you do in the future? He promised tg protect you. What the hell was he protecting?" en.kikistories He was too harsh with his words. Still, Winston genuinely felt heartbroken for Alyssa. He simply blurted out his thoughts without thinking.

"Dad, it's my fault that Jasper ended up like this. I don't blhim for anything he does to me..." A subtle smile crossed Alyssa's face. "From now on, I only hope he stays safe and healthy. The rest is insignificant." All of a sudden, the door to her hospital ward was opened.

With Colene and Lyla holding onto her, Mandy stumbled into the room looking disheveled.

Having never seen her so forlorn, Winston felt a wave of panic. He quickly rushed over to support her quivering body. "What's wrong, Mandy?" "Winston!" Mandy cried out. Tears streamed down her face as she dove into Winston's arms. "I saw Damien... Our son, Damien. I saw him!" Winston's heart skipped a beat. In surprise, he replied, "How could that be... It has been many years since Damien passed away!" "Mandy, could it be that your longing for him caused you to hallucinate?" Colene expressed concern for Mandy's mental health. "Damien died in that plane crash. No one survived when that plane fell into the sea, and the authorities confirmed that." "Damien is my son! How could I have misidentified him?" Mandy couldn't stop crying. "When I walked toward the balcony at the hallway earlier, + spotted a man in a black leather jacket. He was smoking... He looked exactly like Damien! How could there be two people who looked so much alike?" en.kikistories Emotions surged within Winston. Even so, he was afraid that he would be disappointed. So, he remarked in a calm voice, "Mandy, maybe it was just a coincidence..."