Chapter 239
Mr. White let out a quiet sigh. He knew she was upset about what had happened in the courtyard that evening, and there was not much he could say.
All he could do was urge gently, “Then at least drink some milk and try to get some rest. If you keep staring at your phone, your eyes are going to hurt p>
“Okay. You should get some rest too p>
She picked up the glass from the table and drank the milk without thinking. Back when she lived at the Xander estate, Mr. White had always been the one to bring her warm milk at night.
He was someone who had watched her grow up. Just having him there made Winter feel a little more grounded.
After she finished the milk, she went into the bathroom to shower and brush her teeth.
When she changed her pad, it was almost clean. There was barely any blood.
Her period had been strange this time. She didn’t know whether it had anything to do with everything that had happened to her lately. She had heard before that stress could affect your cycle.
Then she remembered that night on the island. Chris had taken her again and again.
There had been no conditions for anything out there on that deserted island, and there was no way Chris would have brought condoms with him while rushing out to rescue her. That night, they had not used any protection.
Then as soon as they got back to Liono City, they heard about Mrs. Xande Sr. In the chaos that followed, she forgot all about taking the pill.
Winter’s fingers curled tightly as she murmured under her breath, “No way. No. It can’t be p>
She quickly grabbed her phone, opened a search engine, and typed, “Can you bleed in early pregnancy p>
The page loaded.
The words implantation bleeding seemed to hook into her eyes and hold them there.
She quietly counted the days.
That night on the island had been five days ago. The bleeding had started on New Year’s Day.
Five days.
But everything she found online said implantation bleeding usually happened about six to twelve days after conception.
Just one day short.
Could she really be pregnant?
Winter took a quick shower. At this point, all she could do was wait until tomorrow. Once she got out of Blackwood Manor, she would go to a drugstore and buy a pregnancy test.
Maybe she was overthinking it.
It couldn’t possibly happen like this. Not when she was already planning to leave Chris.
After she got ready for bed, Winter forced herself to stop thinking about it. But the moment she lay down and
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closed her eyes, flashes of what had happened in the courtyard that evening started replaying in her mind.
Restless, she shoved both hands under her pillow.
Her fingers brushed against something hard.
She pulled it out with one hand and switched on the bedside lamp with the other.
The room lit up.
In her hand was a delicate wooden box.
She had only seen it once, but she recognized it instantly.
When she opened it, there it was. The sapphire brooch Chris had once given her, the same one that had shown up at the auction at Windham Gardens not long ago.
That night, after they came back from Windham Gardens, Chris had slipped the brooch into her bag.
She hadn’t kept it.
She looked at it quietly for a while, then let out a soft sigh, placed it back in the box, and set it on the nightstand.
After turning off the light and lying back down, she started to feel drowsy almost immediately. Maybe she was just too exhausted from the day.
It wasn’t long before she fell asleep.
The room gradually filled with the steady sound of her breathing.
General had been lying on the floor with his head drooping. At the sound of the door opening, he jerked upright.
The moment he recognized the dark figure stepping inside, he let out a low, almost spoiled little whine.
The figure crossed the room to the bed and stood there quietly, looking down at Winter as she slept.
Then he reached out and pulled the blanket a little higher over her chest.
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Chapter 240
Florence
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