My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 25

“What are you talking about?” Matthew snapped at her fiercely. “I’ve been your sister’s boyfriend, I am now, and I always will be. I only love Xanthea. Stop spouting nonsense and daydreaming, or don’t blame me for being heartless!”

With those words, he turned and walked away, leaving Miranda alone in the cold wind, screaming uncontrollably, “Ahh-”

How could she have pinned her hopes on a man who lived off his girlfriend? Ridiculous! Now she had lost everything-her championship, her man, all stolen by Xanthea!

After shaking off Miranda, Matthew, carrying flowers, hurried towards the venue, but the event had ended, and the audience had thinned out. He saw no sign of Xanthea.

At the Rlan Hotel, Xanthea, with a camera in hand, stood at the door of room 1010 and swiped her key card.

act.

She had bribed the hotel manager earlier, just so she could catch a cheater in the Scanning the room for the best hiding spot, she noticed that the wardrobe next to the master bedroom offered the best view and was least likely to give her away.

Checking the time, Xanthea deftly slipped into the wardrobe with her camera, anticipating the imminent arrival of Matthew and Miranda, given their frantic behavior earlier.

On the hotel’s top floor, ‘The Masked Singer’ after-party buzzed with activity as directors, producers, and invited celebrities mingled in high spirits. Yet, the protagonist sat in a dim corner of the banquet hall, downing one glass of wine after another.

empty bottles on the table, fretted, “Mr. Lockwood, please stop drinking. Wine packs a punch; if you keep going, it might

award ceremony, Orion had been composed, but afterwards, he seemed like a changed man, emanating a chilling aura that made people

much.

content dulled Orion’s senses and numbed his body, though his heart ached more intensely. Orion’s eyes, bloodshot, fixated on a neatly

away, I’d never be friends with a

is it always you? Get lost, I hate you, I hate you the

come near me anymore. I’ll never like you

picture hidden, so twisted at such a young

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simple “Mr. Lockwood” and her smile had easily breached his defenses. What was he

cynical smile broke across Orion’s lips, more

surrounded by everyone, starlet Olivia held a wine

had come to the party specifically for Orion, CEO of the TOYUM Group and the power behind the Lockwood Group-the youngest billionaire in Crestwood and the shadowy big boss of Starlight Media. A connection with him, even for just a year, could set her up

as he brooded in the corner, she wondered what troubled him.