Lahat ng Kabanata ng Game Over, Mr. CEO: Your Wife Is Done: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 20

“Saving me from trouble? You certainly think highly of yourself!”Chris didn’t waste a second. He grabbed Winter’s wrist, pulled her out of the pharmacy, and pushed her into a black sedan parked at the curb.The door slammed shut.As soon as Gavin engaged the central locking system, the privacy partition between the front and back seats glided up.Winter froze with her hand on the door handle. She stopped trying to fight her way out since it was pointless in the long, enclosed cabin.There was a soft click as Chris bit down on his cigarette and tossed the lighter onto the console. He turned his head and glanced at her. Her hair was still messy from the wind, and she sat alone in the corner of the spacious backseat, looking so much like the stray puppy he once picked up from the side of the road.Winter watched as the morning-after pills she bought were thrown into the car’s trash bin. Without hesitation, she reached out to take them back.Her wrist was caught before she even got

When Winter was eighteen, she went to Chris and asked to borrow money. All she wanted was to buy back her mother’s ruby bracelet at an auction.Chris had already been twenty-three at the time and was the acknowledged heir to the Xander Corporation. Even if he had not yet taken full control, he was already wealthy beyond imagination.Winter thought that if she asked him, he would agree. But when he heard her request, he did not even lift his head from the documents on his desk. He simply said he would not lend it.No matter how she pleaded, he refused. In the end, he ordered Gavin to throw her out of the study.Right as the door closed, Chris finally looked up at her. His eyes were dark and bottomless, a depth that made her chest tighten.“You’re still so young, and all you can think about is a wedding gift for yourself? Are you that desperate to get married?”Even after all these years, she could still hear his voice as clearly as if he had said it yesterday.She never imagined

Winter’s chest tightened as if something heavy had settled inside her.When she woke up that afternoon and found fresh clothes on her body and ointment on her cheek, there had been a brief moment when she wondered if Chris might actually care about her, even a little.Now she understood completely that he did not.There was not a trace of tenderness in him for her. If there were, he would never have said something so cruel.Winter felt foolish for allowing herself, even for a moment, to think he might feel anything for her.“Don’t worry. From the moment I married you, I knew exactly where I stood. But listen to me, Chris. I loved you but…”A tear slipped from the corner of her eye. She wiped it away quickly, as if it meant nothing.“I also have pride. I have dignity. You don’t get to crush that whenever you feel like it. I did nothing wrong. Did you really come all this way just to shame me? If you wanted to watch me fall apart, if you wanted me to cry in front of you, then cong

Winter’s thoughts drifted to the divorce papers tucked away in the study at Blackwood Manor. A hollow ache spread through her chest.Steve narrowed his eyes. “I honestly don’t know what kind of spell Chris has on you.”Winter bit the inside of her cheek. Sometimes she wondered the same thing. For years her heart had never wavered. Even during three years of a marriage that felt like living with a stranger, she had never once considered giving up.But now she could not hold on any longer. Chris had been the one to tear down her last line of defense.She remembered why her parents had named her Winter. They said winter was the season when people held on to each other the tightest, the season that tested love and made it stronger. Her name was meant to symbolize two people enduring the cold together, not one person begging the other to stay.Now that Chris held absolute power in the company and Skyla had returned, it didn't matter if Skyla was paralyzed. As long as Chris loved her, n

Last time, Winter had only caught a glimpse of the cover. Chris had suddenly returned so she didn’t have the chance to pick it up and look inside.Only now did she realize that Chris hadn’t signed it yet.But that no longer mattered.Instead of living with constant uncertainty, not knowing when Chris might hand her the divorce papers, she would rather take the initiative and sign first. At least that way, she could save herself some dignity.Winter picked up the pen and signed her name neatly in the space designated for the wife.On the day they registered their marriage, she had signed her name slowly and carefully, stroke by stroke. She had been afraid that if she wrote it wrong, Chris might change his mind.Now she was not afraid that he would change his mind about the divorce. That was never going to happen.What she feared was her own hesitation.So she signed quickly, leaving herself no room to regret it.After signing, Winter didn’t flip through the agreement. She place