The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 405

Chapter 405

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Winter felt a sudden heat on her forehead. She wanted to raise her hand and rub it, but in the next second, Chris had already released her waist and locked his large hand firmly around hers.

Her hand was ice–cold.

His was warm.

“One, two, three!”

The instant Winter’s body was thrown upward by the force of Chris’s arm, the warmth gripping her hand disappeared.

Chris let go.

Winter was thrown toward the edge of the woods on the opposite side. She grabbed the hanging vines with all her strength, bit down on the gun, and climbed up with both hands and feet.

Just as she managed to pull herself onto the ground at the edge of the woods, a sharp crack sounded behind her, followed by the rumble of falling rocks.

The hand holding the gun froze.

Blood seemed to rush backward into her heart.

Thud.

Her heart slammed so hard that her vision went black.

She whipped around.

The tree Chris had been holding on to had been ripped out by the roots, tumbling down the cliff with rocks

and dirt.

Below was a bottomless drop.

And the man who had been holding on to the tree was gone.

A raindrop slipped from the treetop and landed on Winter’s lashes.

Her lips turned pale and stiff in an instant. She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

Then the vine near her foot suddenly tugged.

The next second, she saw a tall man in a black weatherproof jacket and night–vision goggles climbing up quickly, one hand gripping a vine.

Rainwater slid from her eyes.

Winter pressed a hand over her wildly beating heart and gritted her teeth hard.

Chris stood up and looked at Winter’s dirt–smudged face and red, wet eyes.

His entire chest went numb.

Chapter 400

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Without the slightest hesitation, he strode up to her, cupped the back of her head, lowered his head, and kissed her hard.

Then he reached for the gun in her hand. As he released her lips, he pulled the trigger and fired into the

“I told you I’d be right behind you.”

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