The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 417

Almost the second that voice rang out, everyone turned around.

Only Winter stayed frozen in place. Her legs felt as if they had been filled with lead.

That familiar, almost ghostly voice slipped into her ears.

Her ears rang. It felt as if all the blood in her body had rushed backward into her heart, making it pound hard against her ribs.

That voice…

How had he caught up so fast?

“Where she’s going has nothing to do with you.‘

William moved almost instantly, stepping in front of her and shielding her at his side. He reached down and squeezed her fingers. Sure enough, they were ice–cold, just as he had expected.

He pushed her farther behind him and lifted his eyes, his gaze cold as it swept toward Chris.

“You used a fake marriage certificate. What right do you have to stop her?”

The bodyguards around Winter and William raised their guns at the same time, aiming at the three men who had stepped out of the woods.

Zion stood in the middle. He clearly saw Chris’s expression turn terrifyingly cold the moment he heard the words “fake marriage certificate.”

“What happens between Winter and me is none of your business,” Chris said, his voice cold enough to freeze.

Before coming up the mountain, he had already known that the Zeller family had sent people this way.

In this world, the only person Winter would willingly leave with was William. Chris couldn’t think of anyone else.

So the moment he saw them together, everything became clear.

The fear that had nearly swallowed him in the woods, along with the lingering panic of almost losing her, turned into a fierce, uncontrollable possessiveness the second he saw William protecting her and holding her hand.

Only he should be protecting her.

William let out a cold laugh. “I’m her family. I’ll get involved however I want. What are you going to do about it?”

While keeping Winter behind him, William studied the men around Chris.

Some of them were unfamiliar. A few of them he recognized from the time Winter had been taken out to sea and Chris had brought her to the island.

The unfamiliar faces were most likely Chris’s hidden guards.

William didn’t miss the slight change in Chris’s expression, but his gaze remained open and steady

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Winner’s hand sigrenet site. Then she gave a self–mocking smile.

thar Chris had caught up, leaving would be almost impossible. Her chances were close to zero. At a time like this, she aruldn’t let him nun his anger on William

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