The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 441

Chapter 441

Roy seemed not to have heardzion’s reminder at all. He shook Zion’s hand off.

Winter was leaning sideways against the headboard. In that position, her shoulder blades stood out sharply beneath her hospital gown.

She had gotten so thin.

“Roy, thank you for coming to see me,” Winter said. “You should go back and focus on recovering.”

Roy typed a line on his phone.

“With you in this state, what right do you have to tell me that?”

Winter’s gaze faltered.

That was true.

What right did she have to persuade anyone else when she couldn’t even take care of herself?

Winter lowered her eyes and murmured, “I just can’t make sense of it.

“My father caused his parents‘ deaths, and he drove my parents to theirs. Somehow, both sides got an ending. Chris got revenge for his parents. But what about me?”

Zion froze. A chill ran down his spine.

He had known she was in a bad place, but he had never imagined this was why.

Damn it.

He really deserved to get punched. He had actually kept telling her to soften toward Chris for now and wait for another chance to

leave.

The thought made Zion want to punch himself.

Winter’s father had caused the deaths of Chris’s p hand, had driven her parents to their deaths.

arents, but that had nothing to do with Winter herself. Chris, on the other

That made him the person who

ad taken her family from her.

How could she possibly give in to him?

Winter’s shoulders trembled. Her voice was broken, but she was trying hard to hold it together.

“I lost my parents when I was seven. At twenty, someone erased my memories. I forgot that Chris was the person who destroyed my family. The only thing I remembered was that I loved him, and I insisted on marrying him. I feel like a puppet on strings, like someone else has been controlling my entire life.

“What even am I?”

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