The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 347

Chapter 347

The moment his words fell, he felt her entire arm go stiff.

He looked up, his dark gaze locking onto hers with a hint of something almost obsessive. Then he smiled.

“Scared?”

She was caught off guard by his smile.

She had never seen him smile like that before.

There was warmth in it. Indulgence. And something deeper, more complicated, held tightly beneath the surface.

Maybe that wasn’t entirely true. Maybe there had been moments like this before, but they had passed too quickly for her to hold on to, leaving her to think she had imagined them.

But never like this.

Never so unguarded, as if he had stopped holding himself back.

And yet, beneath it, she saw something else in his eyes.

Something close to madness.

Something that wanted to pull her in and never let her go.

She remembered that day at Westbury, when he had fired at her. She yanked her hand free.

“I only get one shot. If I miss, it’s over. I’m not like you. I don’t have that kind of aim. You managed to knock the gun out of my hand even in that situation.”

Her voice was sharp with sarcasm, and her eyes held a trace of mockery.

But beneath it, there was something she couldn’t hide.

She was hurt.

Chris’s expression tightened. He caught her hand again, checking the wrist guard. His fingertips were cool against

her skin.

“I thought what bothered you was that my aim wasn’t good enough? That I didn’t just kill you back then?”

He remembered every word she had thrown at him.

Winter turned her head and looked at the target twenty-five meters away. A dull ache spread through her chest.

“If you’d been a second late that day and I’d shot Skyla, would you have shot me?”

He picked up a gun from the table, took her hand, and placed it firmly around the grip.

“No,” he said, calm and certain.

She frowned.

He guided her hand, aiming at the target.

His voice was low against her ear.

“You and her aren’t the same. There’s no need to compare.”

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Bang.

The shot rang out.

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