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

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.

In the days that followed, Tessa ran like clockwork.

then spent her afternoons at the temporary Sinclair Corporation office, tweaking the Sundawn Project’s data streams. Rain or shine, she carved out two afternoons a week

chuckled, “Our Tessa’s a real busybody now–busier than your brother,

hand with a smile. “Better to be busy. If I keep this

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

her anatomy class, Tessa was

to the

opened the door to find Reginald sitting on

behind

across from him.

“Mm.”

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a full month.” He looked up at her, and for once, his gaze held less d. and more scrutiny. “White Corp’s overseas operations have

toward the enemy is cruelty to oneself.” Tessa’s response mirrored her answer in the

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