My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 7

Xanthea asked, “So, are you gonna listen to me or not?”

“Of course! Your word is law to me, Xanthea!”

The door suddenly swung open, and Ethan entered with a stern face, looking at the joyful siblings, “Xan, you woke up today and only hugged Samuel. Now here you are whispering secrets with him. Don’t you care about me anymore?”

Xanthea burst into laughter at the obvious jealousy on Ethan’s face and quickly ran over to pull him close, “Ethan, we were just planning a surprise for you!”

“What surprise?”

“We’re all going to the gem betting event the day after tomorrow!”

“Isn’t that supposed to be a surprise just for you?”

Late at night, laughter echoed from the second floor of the mansion. Miranda looked towards the brightly lit study, her grip tightening on her cellphone.

to everyone. Listening to the sounds from inside now, it seemed it

an adopted daughter, an outsider. Without any real support,

you

voice on the phone snapped her back to reality, “Matt, I’m here; sorry,

saying?”

notice anything off about

“Off?”

help Xanthea, only to be publicly rebuffed,

bit irritable. After all, she’s the precious daughter of the family. I wasn’t there for her when she fell into the water, so I can’t really blame

comforted her, sensing the subtext in her words. But now his mind was filled with images of Xanthea ignoring him when she woke up and the indifferent way she left, which seemed not too abnormal but lacked the usual adoring

“By the

way,

anything

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Chapter 7