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.

she carved out two afternoons a week to visit the Sinclair estate, where she sat with Walter in the garden, listening to his stories about roaming the werewolf territories in his

chuckled, “Our Tessa’s a real

peel an orange and place it in his hand with a smile. “Better to be busy. If I keep this

at a dizzying pace. With the exclusive license to Montedra’s werewolf pharmaceutical pipeline and a capital trap

her anatomy class, Tessa was summoned to

to the

Reginald sitting on the sofa, holding an unlit

the door behind her, her

chair across from him.

“Mm.”

n

once, his gaze held less d. and more scrutiny. “White Corp’s overseas operations have been thoroughly disrupted.

response mirrored her answer in the car when he’d asked how she would handle an

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