The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 444

Chapter 444

Chapter 444

Thinking of Winter’s condition and everything he had just heard, Chris clenched his fingers. His knuckles turned white and trembled from the force. He closed his eyes for a moment before finally forcing himself to ask.

“What did the doctor say?”

“Clinical depression.”

The moment William said the word, Gavin frowned, and Dominic’s expression turned complicated.

How could that be?

William didn’t want to say that word either, but he had no choice but to face it.

He didn’t notice the shock surging deep in Chris’s eyes. He only demanded, “She was already depressed five years ago, wasn’t she?”

Chris didn’t answer him.

Instead, he asked again, as if he needed to make sure he had heard correctly. “The doctor told you it was clinical depression?”

“Yes,” William replied.

Chris’s expression changed, and his breathing tightened again.

Winter’s depression hadn’t started five years ago.

Five years ago, she had learned that he was the one who had driven her parents to their deaths. She had also learned the truth about the hatred between their families. Heartbroken, she had wanted to leave him, even using her own life to force him to let

1. go.

Out of selfishness, he had found a way to bury that part of her memory.

He made her forget how she had turned back from the airport/run to him, and confessed her feelings.

He made her forget the two weeks they had spent together on the island. 1

Most of all, he made her forget that he was the one who had driven her parents to their deaths.

From beginning to end, she only remembered that on the day she was supposed to leave the country, she had been in an accident and hit her head.

But that kind of memory intervention was never foolproof.

There had always been a chance those memories would come back.

He had planted that seed because he was greedy for her love.

Now he was reaping the bitter fruit.

He deserved it.

But her depression had begun more than a year ago, after the induced labor

After that, he had taken Winter back to Blackwood Manor to recover She hadn’t wanted to see anyone Later, he had brough her to the island to live, so William had barely had a chance to see her during that period

Winter had been in unbearable psychological pain back then, so Chris brought in some of the world’s top psychiatrists to treat her. But ordinary therapy couldn’t reach her through that level at griet in the end, her lead doctor suggested an extrest and controversial method, one that went much deeper than the memory suppression Chris had used on her live years ago

She slowly forgot much of the pain. Little by little, she began to recover. After that, she only suffered from occasional insomnia.

“Is this what you call love? I know you’ve saved her more than once. I know you love her, maybe even more than your own life. But if you love her that much, and you knew she had been depressed before, why couldn’t you just treat her right? Why did you bring Skyla back? Why did you hurt her again and again?

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