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“What the hell are you thinking?” Chris asked, his cool tone edged with clear contempt for Dominic’s intelligence.Dominic fired back, “Then you tell me what the hell this is.”Who would believe it?Chris ran Xander Corporation. He was the head of the Xander family. But in the middle of the night, this cold, arrogant man had put in colored contacts, slapped on fake scars, and even worn a muscle suit. Then he had risked ruining his reputation just to sneak out of detention.Who out there was worth that much trouble?Gavin walked over expressionlessly, took the muscle suit from Dominic’s hand, and packed it neatly into a case with practiced ease.He was so smooth about it that Dominic had the strange feeling this was something they did all the time.Dominic blinked, then stared at them like he had been personally betrayed. “Are you two plotting something behind my back? Am I the outsider now?”“I’m the one who got too built,” Gavin said for no apparent reason.Dominic looked eve

“Steve...” Her brows drew together as she tried to explain. “That’s not what I meant.”“You’ve made your meaning very clear.” Steve’s face was expressionless. “I still have a lot of work to deal with. You should go.”Sasha looked at him, as if she wanted to say more, but in the end, she only picked up her bag and turned to leave.Then she stopped.“If I find out that you...” She seemed to think better of it, took a slow breath, and said, “You’d better not have done anything you can’t undo.”Watching Sasha leave, Steve’s eyes darkened. She was clearly hiding something from him.But at this point, he no longer cared.He withdrew his gaze, and it landed on the framed photo of Winter sitting on his desk.He reached for it and drew it closer, his fingertips brushing over Winter’s face in the picture with unsettling tenderness.“Now that Chris is finished, you’ll finally have no choice but to see me, won’t you?”Holding the frame in one hand, he pulled out his phone with the other

If she slipped away quietly, Chris would have no reason to take it out on them.After getting up, Winter packed her luggage. A lot of things could be bought once she got to Merika, so she only brought two changes of clothes and Mrs. Xander Sr.’s photo album.After she finished packing, she checked the time and headed to the airport.It was the weekend, and traffic was light at that hour. After driving to the airport, she checked in her car key and sat in the waiting area for boarding.She wore a mask and a hat, then habitually opened the news.Suddenly, her eyes froze on the screen.“Early this morning, police received a report and discovered the body of an unidentified man by the river. Officers immediately rushed to the scene. Information found on the man’s phone confirmed that he was the anonymous whistleblower who had recently reported unusual activity in a warehouse owned by a construction company under Xander Corporation at West Harbor. Police also found a suicide note on h

But now, whether she wanted to or not, she would have to accept it.After fastening the bracelet around her wrist, Steve lifted her hand and kissed her wrist. Then he held the bracelet up in front of her like he was showing it off.“It’s no worse than the sapphire brooch Chris gave you, is it?”The scene from the auction at Windham Gardens flashed through her mind.“I noticed you kept staring at that brooch. Do you like it? I’ll bid on it for you.“It’s only a hundred million. I can afford it. You don’t need to worry about the price.”So it had all been an act.“So you knew...” Winter bit down hard. She could already feel something changing in her body, but she couldn’t let Steve notice.She had to buy time. She had to recover enough strength to fight back.But whatever Steve had forced her to take was far stronger than she had imagined.Steve leaned close to her ear and whispered, “Because after that car accident, I was the one who picked up that brooch from the scene.”Win

“Wait a little longer,” Roy said, his low voice rough with strain.By then, Winter had lost all sense of reason. She couldn’t hear what he was saying. She didn’t know where she was, and she couldn’t recognize the man in front of her.All she knew was that she desperately wanted the agony inside her to stop. It felt as if a fire were burning through her body, and she needed something, anything, to put it out.She only wanted relief.The violent effects tearing through her made her desperate for some way to escape them. Her fingers clutched at Roy’s cool jacket, but that only seemed to make the torment worse.She leaned over the back of the driver's seat, her feverish fingertips sliding past his collar, searching for skin. Suddenly, a large hand caught hers through the fabric of his clothes and held it tight.That hand was trembling. The force of his restraint was so intense it felt as if he were barely holding himself together.When her hand was stopped, the unbearable wave ins