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William’s blood ran cold. His pupils trembled.“Skyla Jasper, let her go!”“Let her go?” Skyla laughed.Branches had cut several bloody lines across her face. Blood trailed down her pale skin and gathered at her jaw. When she smiled, the dried blood cracked at the edges, making her look almost ghostly.Then her smile slowly faded.“When she’s dead, I’ll let her go.”Chris had been dealing with Sean, but he had never stopped watching Winter. The second someone threw an explosive toward her and William, he shook off the Zeller bodyguards and rushed over.Then he saw Winter in Skyla’s grip, with a gun pressed to her head.Winter’s face was bloodless from the cold and exhaustion. She looked frighteningly fragile, as if one more blow could break her.A layer of frost seemed to settle over Chris’s face. His fingers tightened around his gun until his knuckles creaked.He had prepared for almost everything, yet he had still failed to account for Skyla making it this far.“Chris,” Sk

Before Skyla collapsed, her hand was still locked around Winter’s arm. Her nails dug in so hard it felt as if she meant to tear through Winter’s skin.Even after the bullet hit her and she fell, she still didn’t let go.Skyla’s weight dragged Winter backward. Winter’s legs had gone weak, and she couldn’t hold herself up. She started to fall with her.Before she hit the ground, a dark figure rushed toward her.Winter was pulled up and held tightly against a hard, ice-cold chest. Back in the woods, Chris had given her his jacket, and now the clothes he had left on were soaked through and freezing.Chris kicked Skyla away.The bodyguards immediately stepped forward to check on her and confirm that she was dead.Chris kept the hand holding the gun behind Winter’s head, blocking her from turning back to look.“I need to ask her.” Winter’s eyes were red. “I need to ask her what she meant.”A chill seemed to crawl out from deep inside her bones, making her tremble uncontrollably.Th

A figure moved faster than anyone could react, rushing past William and throwing himself toward Winter.Boom.Boom.Boom.All Winter heard was a series of deafening explosions.The ground shook violently beneath her. A powerful force slammed into her, throwing her aside, and then everything went black.*After the explosion, the mountain looked as if it had been ripped open. The air was thick with the sharp smell of smoke and damp earth.A helicopter hovered overhead.Dawn was beginning to break. The pale moonlight had grown thin and faint, and the mountain was still wrapped in poor visibility and bitter cold.One of Gavin’s arms was bleeding. He knelt on the rocky slope, gripping a tool with both hands as he worked with the bodyguards to pry away the rocks pinning Chris and Winter down.With a heavy rumble, the rock finally shifted.“Mr. Xander!” Gavin shouted.Chris lay facedown, his body still curved protectively around Winter.But even after Gavin called his name, Chr

Winter struggled to wake from the dream.But the harder she fought, the more it felt like an invisible net was tightening around her, squeezing the air from her lungs.Why could she hear car horns?The noise grew louder and louder.“Please, hurry! Go faster. I’ll pay you extra!”Her own frantic voice rang in her ears. Her heart was pounding out of control.Where was she going?Why was she so desperate to get there?A rush of panic hit her, and her eyes flew open.The spinning scene in front of her slowly came into focus.She was inside an upscale restaurant.Soft piano music flowed through the room. It looked like someone had reserved the entire place. There were no other guests, and even the servers were nowhere to be seen.Winter pressed a hand to her chest. She couldn’t understand why she was breathing so hard, as if she had run all the way here.“I thought you were leaving the country for vacation.”A familiar, low voice reached her ears.Winter turned toward it.Ch

“Why did you drive my parents to their deaths? Tell me, Chris. Tell me!“They were the people I loved most, and you killed them!”His face looked as if the rain had washed every trace of color from it. There was a chilling coldness to him. His lips moved.“They got what they deserved.”Those five words, utterly devoid of warmth, struck her heart like thunder.She stumbled back. Her lips parted, but no sound came out. The violent surge of emotion left her unable to breathe. Darkness blurred her vision.Only the sapphire brooch pinned to her chest still flashed with a brilliant glow.It was the rare sapphire Chris had won at auction. For half a month, every night after she fell asleep, he had carved and polished it by hand with painstaking care.The head of the Xander family, a man buried in endless responsibilities, had gone that far for her.A proposal in a sea of flowers.How bitterly ironic.Those two weeks had been nothing but a dream.The man who had wanted to marry her