Fell for the Alpha-less Queen

Chapter 565 The Second Test

Tessa suddenly laughed and booked her arms around his neck. "When did Mr. Landon become such a gentleman?"

"I've always been this way-with you." Landon lowered his head and kissed the corner of her eye, kissing away the lingering wetness. "Once you're feeling better..."

"Once Grandpa's better," Tessa finished for him, lightly tapping his Adam's apple with her finger. "Alright." Landon gave in, though his arms around her didn't loosen. "Let me hold you a bit longer."

The light from the living room lamp stretched their shadows long across the floor, entwined and inseparable.

It was a while before Landon finally lo

1. go. He smoothed her rumpled collar and said, "Take a shower and go to bed early. I'll go with you to the Sinclair estate tomorrow."

"Okay."

After getting ready for bed, Tessa fell asleep in Landon's arms.

followed,

afternoons at the temporary Sinclair Corporation office, tweaking the Sundawn Project's data streams. Rain or shine, she carved out two afternoons a week to visit the Sinclair estate, where she sat with Walter in

and chuckled, "Our Tessa's a real busybody now-busier than your brother, the Frostmoon Pack's

place it in his hand with a smile. "Better to be busy. If I keep this up, you'll see me and

laugh until his eyes watered, never knowing that the performance charts on her office desk were surging upward at a dizzying pace. With the exclusive license to Montedra's werewolf pharmaceutical pipeline and a capital trap laid squarely against White Corp's soft spots, it took less than three months for Sinclair

her anatomy class, Tessa was

was summoned to

door to find Reginald sitting on the sofa, holding an unlit cigar

Tessa closed the door behind her, her tone

to the chair across from him. "I read

"Mm."

month." He looked up at her, and for once, his gaze held less d. and more scrutiny. "White Corp's overseas operations have been thoroughly disrupted. Your methods

is war. Mercy toward the enemy is cruelty to oneself." Tessa's response mirrored her answer in the car when

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that your first pass. He paused before cutting to the chase. “Next. I'll have someone walk you through Nightshade Pack's core security