Game Over, Mr. CEO: Your Wife Is Done (Winter and Chris) novel Chapter 423

So the statement had been a lie.

“If you want to save Winter, post it right now,” Skyla said. “Say on social media, in front of me, that you and Winter are divorcing soon. Say you never loved her at all!”

Before Chris could answer, Winter gave a low laugh from Skyla’s grasp.

“Skyla Jasper, you’re pathetic.”

“Shut up!” Skyla snapped.

But Winter kept going, her voice quiet and clear.

“Chris and I were never legally married. The certificate was fake. So what divorce are you talking about?”

A faint, self-mocking smile touched her lips.

Chris’s dark eyes stayed fixed on her face, and his grip tightened around the gun.

The barrel pressed against Winter’s forehead trembled, scraping over the broken skin again and again. But Winter seemed not to feel it. Her full attention was on Skyla, searching for the smallest opening.

Skyla was breathing hard. **“**Is that true?”

She was asking Chris.

Chris’s eyes were cold. “It’s true.”

Skyla suddenly burst out laughing.

She laughed until tears streamed down her face.

If this had happened before, she would have been overjoyed. She might have thought she was the luckiest woman in the world.

But now she had already seen the truth.

Chris loved Winter.

That connection between them, the kind that couldn’t be severed no matter what happened, was something Skyla could never have.

How much did Chris love Winter?

Enough to go along with a fake marriage just for her.

“Why does he love you so much?” Skyla moved the gun away from Winter’s temple and pressed it against the side of her neck instead.

Chris raised his gun and aimed at Skyla.

His face was rigid, and suddenly he seemed to see Harvey lying weakly in the hospital.

Harvey was still waiting for Skyla’s blood to save his life.

Skyla was shaking all over. She seemed completely on the verge of breaking now, her words tumbling out in panic.

“Why? Winter, tell me why he loves you so much? Why do you get all of his love? Why didn’t you just die?

“That someone drugged you. You were supposed to die!

He saw Harvey struggling to turn over, propping himself up with all his strength, then smiling at him with those bright, curved eyes.

Bloodshot veins spread through Chris’s eyes, and moisture gathered in them.

He couldn’t let Skyla keep talking.

Winter wouldn’t be able to take it.

After hearing Skyla’s words, Winter’s face turned deathly pale. Her pupils trembled, tears shining in her unfocused eyes.

“What did you say?”

“You were supposed to die. I don’t know whether to call you lucky or call that child unlucky, because…”

Skyla’s voice slipped into Winter’s ears like a curse.

“That child died in your place.”

Bang!

The bullet cut through the air.

At the same time, tears fell from Chris’s bloodshot eyes.

Skyla’s voice stopped cold.