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“Impossible.”Her head lowered as tears welled in her eyes.Her vision blurred.Chris wouldn’t abandon her.There was no way he would refuse to see her.Didn’t she still carry the blood that mattered so much to him?Just like before, whenever something happened to her, he would rush to her side, stay with her, personally instruct the doctors to take care of her, and have rare medicines and the best ingredients prepared for her.Just like the caregiver always said, she was the one Chris kept closest to his heart.This time would be no different. She had thrown up so much blood. He would only be more anxious than before, more protective, more attentive.Her voice grew from a hoarse murmur into a shrill outburst. “That’s impossible. There’s no way Chris doesn’t want to see me. You’re lying to me. All of you are lying to me!”Bracing herself with both hands, she pushed herself upright in bed. Her hair hung loose, covering half her face as she cried. “You’re all working together t

Chris’s hand rested on the little boy’s round head for a long moment before he finally stood and left the ICU.“There’s still no match in the bone marrow registry?”Chris stopped just outside the unit.The door closed behind him. That tiny sealed-off space had been the little boy’s whole world for the past year.The doctor’s expression was heavy. “The registry is updated every day, but there’s still no donor match for Richie.”He saw the darkness in Chris’s eyes and felt a pang of sympathy.Chris glanced back at the closed door.Richie was the little boy’s nickname.It had been a weekend. Compared with the autumn weather in other cities, Liono City had been especially mild and pleasant. Winter had been lying back in a lounge chair in the garden at Blackwood Manor. At the time, she was already six months pregnant.There was no one else around.She had her eyes closed, enjoying the cool fall breeze, both hands resting lightly on her rounded belly. Smiling, she said, “Baby, your

“Are you insane?” Winter snapped.But the neighbors next door were never around. As far as she knew, no one even lived there. So how could someone have opened the door for Chris this late at night?Then it hit her.“The place next door is yours?”She stared at the man walking toward her, disbelief all over her face, and took an unsteady step back.She didn’t know whether the tears burning in her eyes came from belated fury or from the hopelessness of realizing just how much control he had over her life. Her voice shook as she demanded, “Did you buy it to keep tabs on me?”She spun around at once, only to remember that she had shoved the cabinet in front of the door with almost all her strength. Now she had to push it back out of the way.Chris watched her, her face flushed red with anger and panic, her eyes red too, as she braced herself and tried to shove the cabinet that was nearly as tall as she was.His expression darkened. He strode over, grabbed her arm, and pulled her ba

The fighting in the hallway was getting louder by the second.The thought that Chris had abandoned her sent such a violent wave of emotion through Skyla that even her fingers began to shake. She had to clutch the blanket tightly just to force herself to stay calm.The most urgent thing now was getting out.Up until now, she hadn’t only had Chris’s people around her, but her own as well. They had been protecting her since her time overseas. Their identities had been scrubbed so clean that not even Chris had been able to trace them.“Bring me the wheelchair.”Her gaze swept over the caregiver, who had gone pale with fear.Useless idiot. She had actually dared keep this from her.The caregiver flinched and stammered, “O-Okay, Ms. Jasper.”She stumbled toward the wheelchair while Skyla pulled out her phone and called Victor.“I’m at the Xander family hospital.”Victor had been jolted awake by the call and was already in a foul mood. The moment he heard her voice, his tone turned

“You think that makes you impressive?” Winter bit back the urge to curse him out and said with open sarcasm, “Why stop at shutting me up? Why don’t you just blow my mouth off while you’re at it?”She knew Chris was crazy enough to do just about anything.He listened to her exaggerated tone and knew exactly what she was doing. She was trying to steer his attention somewhere else, thinking she was being clever, when in reality he saw straight through her.She was wrapped tightly in the blanket, with even her long hair tucked inside it, leaving only her pale, makeup-free face exposed.As the helicopter cut across the night sky over Liono City, moonlight streamed through the cabin window and fell across her delicate features, softening them in a faint, misty glow.There was something almost unreal about her like that.Especially now, with that mocking tone in her voice and those slightly upturned eyes glaring at him, she had a sharp, vivid kind of beauty that made it hard to look awa