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In his spacious apartment, the phone in Chris’s left pocket began to vibrate.He had finished the food in his bowl and eaten about half the dishes on the table.He set his utensils down beside the fake scar he had just peeled off the corner of his mouth. The thing had been glued on so tightly it had barely let him open his mouth to eat.Gavin was usually dependable.Sometimes, though, he could be absurd.Still, considering how far Gavin had gone with this, Chris couldn’t really complain.He took out his phone and checked the caller ID. His gaze darkened at once. This was the first time his uncle had called since everything that happened yesterday.His thumb slid across the screen, and his tone stayed even. “Uncle Julian.”On the other end, Julian Xander asked gently, “Have you had lunch yet?”Chris gave a quiet sound of acknowledgment.These days, Julian was the only member of the Xander family still living full-time at the estate. He was Chris’s uncle, his father’s younger b

Winter swallowed the irritated words at the tip of her tongue and said as gently as she could, “You’re already in this condition. You really don’t need to go downstairs just to walk off lunch.“Besides, if you really want to move around a little, you can do it at home. Your living room is huge. A few laps in here would be plenty.”Just then, her phone rang.She was holding it with the screen facing up, so Roy immediately saw the caller ID.It was Zac.As Winter’s finger hovered over the screen, something hit the floor with a dull thud.She turned and saw Roy’s cane lying on the ground. She quickly walked over, picked it up, and handed it back to him.“See? You can barely get around without your cane right now. So stay upstairs, okay?” she said patiently.Then she turned toward the elevator and swiped to answer the call.But before she could hear what the person on the other end was saying, she caught Roy moving past her out of the corner of her eye. He was already heading forw

Deep in the ICU wing, there was a heavy secured door with a keypad lock. Every doctor and nurse assigned to that case had gone through layers of screening before being allowed anywhere near it. No one else knew who was staying inside.The door opened, and a tall man in full protective gear stepped out. He was covered from head to toe. A doctor walked out with him.“We’re just waiting for Ms. Jasper’s test results now,” the doctor said. “If all her numbers come back normal, we’ll move forward with the bone marrow transplant right away.”The doctor led him into the changing room and helped him remove the protective suit. The room inside had to remain completely sterile. The child in the isolation room was too fragile to handle any outside contamination.With the medical staff’s help, Chris took off the protective gear. His expression stayed cool and unreadable, without the slightest hint of emotion.Only his bloodshot eyes gave away how tired he really was.“What are his chances?”

When William got back to the room, the hospital door was already standing open.“What happened?” he asked, picking up his pace in alarm.The doctor behind him and Zion in front of him both moved at once to steady him.“William, Ms. Scott was taken by Chris,” Zion said, guilt written all over his face as he looked at him. “I’m sorry, William. I…”William sucked in a sharp breath, and pain shot through the wound in his abdomen. He stared at the empty hospital bed. He had only been gone a few minutes, and Chris had already shown up like a bloodhound.He glanced at Zion, who looked sick with guilt, and forced himself to stay calm. “Did you get hurt?”Hearing that William was still worried about him at a time like this only made Zion feel worse.“No.”The moment he saw Chris, he had gone on guard. He had a feeling Winter’s condition had something to do with him, and no matter what, he couldn’t let Chris get near her again.But at the critical moment, Gavin showed up.“Do me this f

“Get her to the ER, now!”“Ms. Jasper!”Skyla vomiting blood again threw the whole room into chaos.Blood dripped steadily through the fingers pressed over her mouth.Her face was pale as death. Bright red blood smeared across her lips in a way that looked almost grotesque. Her eyes were unnaturally red, whether from pain or heartbreak, making her look like a ghost dragged straight out of hell.The poison sent violent tremors through her body. After coughing up blood twice in a row, she finally collapsed back onto the bed, unable to hold herself up any longer.The room spun around her, and her consciousness started slipping away. As she stared at the man standing in the doorway, unmoved and cold, her heart tightened again and again. A chill sank into her bones, and somewhere deep down, she began to realize something.As the medical staff rushed the gurney past Chris, she tried to reach for his hand.Chris...Couldn’t he see how much pain she was in?Why would he not even come