Game Over, Mr. CEO: Your Wife Is Done (Winter and Chris) novel Chapter 365

Chapter 365

The basement door slammed shut.

The bodyguards left as well.

Skyla collapsed to the floor and stared at the heavy door. Her tears were about to fall, but the moment she remembered that Chris had promised to publicly distance himself from Winter, she forced them back.

Then she smiled.

“Winter, this time, I’m going to take Chris back from you again.”

Chris walked into the living room on the first floor. Outside, the sky had already begun to brighten.

He glanced at the wall clock.

Five thirty.

At this hour, Winter was still asleep.

“Mr. Xander, are you really going to agree to her terms?” Gavin asked.

He knew better than anyone what Chris and Winter’s relationship was like right now.

If Chris publicly told the press that he had nothing to do with Winter, then whatever fragile connection still remained between them would collapse completely. It was already like a storm-battered house by the sea. One more gust of wind would be enough to tear it apart.

Chris said nothing.

He walked to the liquor cabinet, opened it, and took out a bottle.

Watching him drink, Gavin suddenly realized that Chris hadn’t gotten a proper night’s rest in days.

Between Richie and Winter, he had been running himself into the ground. On top of that, he still had to deal with the mess Steve had caused at the corporation.

Before taking Winter to the island to help her clear her head, Chris had stretched every minute as far as it could go just to get his work done.

And during the two days he had been away, even more work had piled up at the company.

Chris drank in silence, his mind on Richie lying in the ICU.

“What if the poison in Skyla’s body hasn’t fully entered her bloodstream yet?” he said. “Or what if she gave herself too large a dose?”

If that was true, then the situation was far more serious than they had thought.

Gavin’s expression turned grave.

About half an hour later, the doctors and nurses sent by the hospital arrived at the villa.

“Mr. Xander.”

They came up to Chris.

Chris gave the order. “In addition to the bone marrow sample, draw a vial of her blood as well.”

If the toxin could no longer be detected in her blood, but traces of it could still be found in her bone marrow, then his theory would be confirmed.

And judging from Skyla’s reason for killing Jacob, she had even more reason to go after other people.