Game Over, Mr. CEO: Your Wife Is Done (Winter and Chris) novel Chapter 498

Chapter 498

walked slowly down the hallway and glanced up at the electronic display overhead.

Two in the morning.

Dawn was still so far away.

The hallway was too quiet. Two of the lights near the nurses’ station had been turned off, making the light less harsh. The remaining lights were spaced far apart, stretching her shadow long across the floor.

She was wearing soft-soled shoes, and she walked slowly, so her footsteps made almost no sound.

Chris was standing by the window at the corner of the hallway, smoking.

The moment a long, thin shadow fell across the base of the wall, his hand paused as he flicked ash from his cigarette. He lifted his eyes and looked toward the other end of the shadow.

Their eyes met.

Before Winter could react, Chris had already put out his cigarette.

He stubbed it out, then pushed the half-open window as wide as it would go.

The smoke scattered into the wind.

Only then did Winter notice that his eyes were a little red.

It was two in the morning.

He was out here smoking for the same reason she couldn’t sleep.

She and Chris were no longer together but they still shared a child.

“Why aren’t you asleep?”

Chris’s voice broke the silence of the hallway.

He had just smoked, so his voice was low and hoarse.

Their shadows overlapped on the floor.

Winter looked at him quietly. After a few seconds, she said, “I couldn’t sleep.”

Once the smoke had cleared, Chris looked at the thin hospital gown she was wearing and closed the window.

Winter had passed in Liono City, but the wind in the middle of the night was still cold.

“Want to go downstairs for a walk?” he asked.

Winter did not answer.

Chris turned toward the shadowed stairwell.

“Bring her coat.”

“Yes, sir.”

A tall figure stepped out of the darkness and disappeared around the corner. A short while later, he returned with two coats. One was Chris’s, and the other was Winter’s.

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Chris was about to drape Winter’s coat over her shoulders when she said, “I can do it myself.”

His hand paused for only a moment.

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Then his expression returned to normal.

Downstairs, the inpatient building was so quiet at this hour that only the sound of running water could be heard..

Chris glanced at Winter, then reached over and pulled the hood of her coat up over her head.

Before Winter could ask, he explained, “There’s dew.”

Winter said nothing.

She did not look at Chris either. She only stared at the greenery beneath the landscape lights and walked aimlessly.

Aside from the few times William and Wendy had forced her downstairs for a walk, she had barely left her room. Much less in the middle of the night.

The Xander family’s hospital was built like a garden, with beautiful landscaping everywhere.

But Winter was in no state to appreciate any of it.

She missed Richie.

She missed him so much it was almost unbearable.

“I have other videos of Richie on my phone,” Chris said beside her. “Do you want to see them?”

That day, he had only asked Gavin to send Winter the video of Richie saying “Mommy” for the first time. He had kept the other videos for moments like this, in case she lost control during Richie’s treatment.

Even though she looked calm, she was only holding herself together on the surface.

She hadn’t fallen apart yet.

But she was burying everything too deep.

And the longer she kept it all inside, the harder it would be to reach her when she finally broke.

Just now, he had checked his phone battery.

Not too much. Not too little.

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