The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 453

Chapter 453

William knew better than anyone how much Winter had once looked forward to that child.

It was the first time he had ever seen that kind of softness in her.

A mother’s love for a baby who hadn’t even been born yet.

In a hospital room guarded by both the police and Chris’s bodyguards, Skyla lay on the bed with tubes connected all over her body. The machines beside her kept her vital signs steady.

The lower half of the blanket lay flat against the mattress.

There was no shape of legs beneath it.

Skyla had lost b

truest sense.

in the explosion. She was paralyzed from the waist down and had become disabled in the

e would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

et the chance to leave this place anyway.

Even if she

But she

Christ

Sk

nore than one life. She might not even live to see next spring before her sentence was carried out.

restlessly, and a broken whimper slipped from her throat.

rned over the evidence of her crimes to the police.

ris? I want to see him.”

routine checks by doctors and nurses, no one entered this room.

how much she called out, no one answered her.

the door opened. A nurse came in to change her IV.

inter dead?” Skyla asked, her voice low and chilling.

staff had heard that question countless times over the past few days.

very time someone came near her, Skyla asked the same thing.

Is Winter dead?”

But no one ever answered.

They had been ordered not to speak to her.

After changing the IV, the nurse left. The door opened and closed, and the light shifted briefly before the room fell dim again.

Skyla shut her eye

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