My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 2

Holy cr ap!!!

Was he kissing her dead body? Did he have a thing for corpses?!

Xanthea, shivering with horror, saw Orion not only bizarrely kiss the girl’s lips for a long while but also picked up her lifeless body and headed towards the Rolls-Royce.

What in the world did he want with her body? Wasn’t kissing her enough, now he wanted. to take her home for some sick game?

Fuming to the point of nearly exploding, Xanthea was about to follow when suddenly her soul got sucked into the knife Orion was holding. When she was released again, she found herself in the chilling breeze of a pitch-dark rooftop.

As Xanthea realized it was a rooftop, her spirit trembled.

This was the very rooftop where Xanthea had caught Matthew and Miranda in the middle of a disgraceful scene and was then pushed off the building.

Two people, one was her longtime beloved fiancé and the other was her stepsister who she trusted implicitly had betrayed her in the cruelest way. She despised them!

But this wasn’t the Nightshade Group’s rooftop; their building had only twenty-six floors. This place had a towering sixty-six floors, and the neon logo shining on the building. opposite was the emblem of Crestwood – the Lockwood Group Twin Towers!

“Oh, please, let me go; let me go, please.”

A familiar voice came from behind. Xanthea quickly turned around to see two people, their limbs tightly bound with nylon ropes and covered in blood, kneeling and begging pitifully.

Matthew and Miranda! What were they doing here looking like this?

As she looked past them, Orion’s tall silhouette cast a dark shadow on Matthew and Miranda’s faces.

hell, his entire aura dark and ominous. Under Miranda’s terrified gaze, he lifted her to the edge of the rooftop, slicing

heart-wrenching, and Xanthea was so frightened that her

Orion, how could he…

with Miranda? Even Xanthea, who paid

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gossip, had heard about his grand pursuits. How could he now treat her so brutally? Miranda had always been so

vanished from the sixty-sixth floor, shocking Xantheal into near paralysis.

pushed Miranda off the building? From the

as trivial as a

Matthew.

the edge, Xanthea noticed that he was already terribly wounded, his

his eyes filled with cold fury, like a dark

from afar, I’d feel it’s

a moment, Matthew too plummeted

second, the scene was

rooftop, the man slowly wiped the murky blood from

hand and

“No!”

Thank goodness,

scared. I’m here; it’s all

a scream, the figure in the bed slowly opened her eyes to see

mom Susanna, brothers Ethan and Samuel? Xanthea stared blankly,