The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 413

Chris picked up the gun from the ground.

It was soaked from the rain, cold in his hand.

His pale knuckles trembled from how tightly he was gripping it.

With one look, he recognized it.

It was the gun he had given Winter.

Just now, she had used this very gun to cover him. Her shot had been fast, accurate, and ruthless. She had learned that from him, back when he had taught her as Roy.

Anyone could tell she had been protecting him.

Even though he could have handled those men easily on his own, the moment Winter fired, something had exploded wildly in his chest.

So wildly that he had wanted to see her right away.

He had wanted to “teach her a lesson” and ask if she had any idea how dangerous that had been.

But now, she was gone.

“Winter…”

His breath caught hard in his throat. A dark, vicious red spread through his eyes.

“Mr. Xander!”

Aside from the men who had followed Gavin, three bodyguards were still with Chris.

They recognized the gun in his hand too. There was no need to guess who Chris would have given something so important to.

Their faces turned grave at once. They quickly split up and began searching for Winter

Chris lifted his eyes. His dark gaze, deep as an abyss, swept across the overgrown woods in treat of hun

The shower was weakening now. Rainwater dripped from the wild grass in scattered drops, and a thin white mist was slowly rising through the trees.

The weeds on the ground had been trampled down, but there were no signs of drug and no signs of a fight

“She wasn’t taken by force‘

His grip on the gun slowly tightened His already cold expression turned even frostict

Three minutes earlier, as Garrett and two of Fablare’s men closed in on Chris. Winter Road a fed an Histinct and fired at the same time he did

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The Zeller bodyguards assigned to protect Winter had contacted Zion before the explosion. At the time, Zion had been at the hospital, about to deal with his hemorrhoids. Once he received the call, he had dropped everything, called William, and rushed out of the hospital

Now, the Zeller family’s bodyguards were scattered throughout the mountains as well, searching for Winter.

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