“Quit trying to scare me. If the elevator suddenly drops while you’re holding me like this, we’re both dead.”Maybe she imagined it, but after she said that, she thought she heard Chris laugh very softly.“Fine by me.”“What?”Her head was pressed against his chest. In one ear, all she could hear was his heartbeat. The hearing in the other still hadn’t fully recovered, so everything sounded slightly muffled.But before she could hear what he meant, the hand at the back of her head suddenly tightened.The elevator, which had paused at the fifteenth floor, suddenly dropped.Chris turned fast, bracing the back of his head and his back against the elevator wall.He lifted Winter off the floor and held her against his bent thigh, one strong arm protecting the back of her head and neck.“Chris Xander, you jinxed it!” Winter’s face went white with fear. In her panic, her body reacted on instinct, pressing tightly against him.Then she felt something warm and soft brush against her f
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