Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 46

“Is Is it2” Alyssa touched her face. It felt as warm as toast. She immediately looked away shyly. “Mayt "Weren't you on

your way to the cellar? Your face is red before you've even had a drop.” Sean pointed out. He was ar elite employee but an amateur when it came to real life. He had no idea that Alyssa was just feeling I "You're so annoying!” Alyssa rolled her eyes at him and walked off in embarrassment.

Sean was left standing there miserably. He didn't know how he had offended her. He had no choice I They arrived at the wine cellar. It held nearly a thousand bottles of red wine, all of which were prepar for Alyssa by Jasper. He knew that she had a hobby of having a drink or two. (1)

Every bottle of wine was expensive, and many of them were limited editions bought at auctions. Alyssa owned more than twenty bottles of some wines that even Winston didn’t have. If she were to sell them, she could afford two villas in Solana City.

Alyssa scanned the

racks and chose a bottle of Romani Conti. She tiptoed to take it, but she still couldn't reach it.

Sean

walked behind her, and his shadow loomed over her. Then, he took the bottle of wine for her effortl sweet scent of her hair. His heart started thumping wildly, and he blushed. “Here, Ms. Alyssa.”

“Tut tut, how nice to have a secretary who's six feet tall. I don't even have to

buy a ladder.” However, her ideal man was taller than six feet- someone

like Jasper. Anyone shorter than him wasn't her cup of tea.

She scolded herself for thinking of him again. The thought of him made her feel tipsier than wine. "Ms. Alyssa, I'll help you open it. It's difficult for you to do it with one hand

Without

a word, Alyssa smashed her cast against the edge of a table, and her arm came free. “It's so clunky. I “Back then, during the war, breaking an arm or dislocating a joint was just a small matter. I've witnes: with in the

afternoon would be brought back with countless bullets in him and half his face gone in the evening Alyssa

calmly told Sean about the brutality of war with the expression of a person who had been through I how a privileged and sheltered woman like her had made it through those times.

Once they had let the wine breathe, messages started popping up in the Secret Society group chat. Axel: “Silas, I'm busy, so I haven't had the time to understand how a person in the

judicial department like

you can also be so unbothered about everything. Did you know Jasper asked someone to hack into goodness I reacted quickly. I've upgraded the security to grade S. That idiot is no match for me.” Alyssa’s eyes widened in shock.

Silas: “F***1 Does he suspect something?”

Axel: “Hey, why are you swearing at me? Show some respect!”

Silas: “F*** you!”

Axel: “You wanna fight? You couldn't win even if I had my hands tied behind my back.”