Chapter 375
Gavin went up the stairs, and Chris turned to leave the basement.
“Chris!” Skyla called after him. “Do you really feel nothing for what we used to have p>
Her voice, full of hope and pain, echoed through the empty basement.
Chris was walking up the steps when he heard her. His footsteps stopped.
What they used to have…
He let out a soft, mocking laugh.
“What exactly are you talking about?” His voice was cold to the extreme. “The fact that you saved my life, or the part where you threatened to die so I would agree to be your boyfriend p>
Saved his life.
Skyla heard the open mockery in Chris’s words, and a chill spread through her heart.
After the truth came out that she had only pretended to be disabled, the life debt between them became simple.
Over the years, the Xander family had given the Jasper family more than enough. They had repaid her for saving him long ago.
Her legs were perfectly fine. Chris no longer owed her anything.
But how could she accept him treating her so coldly? It was nowhere near enough for him to simply clarify that he had nothing to do with Winter.
“When you agreed to be with me back then, did you really not feel even the slightest bit of pity for me? Before that, whenever I came to you in trouble, you helped me. Are you saying I truly had no place in your heart at all p>
Chris turned his head slightly. The sharp lines of his profile looked deep and striking, carrying a coldness that seemed to seep into the air.
“If she hadn’t mentioned you to me, I never would have paid any attention to you at all. A place in my heart? You think you deserve that p>
Skyla didn’t need to ask who he meant by “she p>
Who else could it be but Winter?
“So you’re saying I only got the chance to get close to you because of Winter p>
Skyla remembered that day clearly. It had been Winter’s graduate school commencement, and Skyla had found out early that Winter planned to confess her feelings to Chris after the ceremony.
Winter might have been graduating from grad school, but she had only been twenty–one at the time. She was still a young woman full of romantic hopes.
She had booked a restaurant in advance and bought a beautiful outfit. All she had been waiting for was the end of
the ceremony.
Skyla still remembered calling Chris early that morning and telling him she was in trouble.
Over the phone, Chris had said he would have his assistant help her. He told her he had something to take care of
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and needed to go out.
Skyla had immediately suspected that he was going to Winter’s school. Sure enough, she managed to stop Chris’s car on the route he had to take to get there.
At first, Chris wouldn’t let her into the car.
It was only after she told him she had something about Winter to tell him that Chris let her in.
The moment she got into the car, she said, “Winter is going to confess to you p>
She had expected Chris to look surprised. At the very least, she had expected some flicker of emotion on his face.
Instead, his reaction was unusually calm.
There had been something meaningful in his voice when he said, “I know p>
At the time, Skyla’s heart clenched.
Maybe fate had handed her that chance. At the next intersection, just as the car was getting closer and closer to Winter’s school, Chris’s car was hit.
In that moment, the only thought in Skyla’s mind was that she couldn’t let anything happen to Chris.
The instant she threw herself toward him, the car flipped twice from the force of the crash.
No matter how skilled Chris was, no matter how strong he was, there was no way he could have avoided an impact
like that.
By then, Skyla had already discovered the truth about her own background. She had connections in the shadows, and with their help, she managed to fake the injury to her legs.
Chris, meanwhile, had lost his sight. He had no time to pay attention to so many details, so the best window for investigation passed. Once enough time went by, there were no traces left to find.
That was how she had managed to keep pretending all these years.
It was also what gave her the chance to use that life debt against him.
Skyla’s eyes turned red.
“You’re only saying all this because you’re angry that I lied to you, aren’t you? Deep down, you did like me a little. Otherwise, why would you have agreed to be my boyfriend back then? Don’t tell me it was because of Winter. That’s impossible p>
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