My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 44

“I sneaked out to play today, and my uncle is already super mad. If he finds out I haven’t finished my homework, he’s definitely going to spank me. So can you help me out?”

“Homework help, huh?”

Xanthea glanced at the stack of elementary school workbooks on the desk and nodded, “You’ve come to the right person, kiddo. I’m a total genius!””

“That’s awesome!”

They sat down at the desk, Xanthea flipping through the easy-peasy problems, “Which one should we start with

Sebastian said, “Language, I guess. I’m not great at it.”

“Alright, let’s start with the exercise then.”

Xanthea picked up a pencil and circled the question, when suddenly, a beautiful fruit platter appeared before her, filled with cherries strawberries, bananas, and peaches-all her favorites.

She looked up to see Orion, a bit surprised, “Mr. Lockwood, you’re too kind, bringing me this fruit platter yourself.”

Need me

Peel?

What here needs peeling?

noticed the bananas.

people usually offer to peel apples

like being back on the plane, when she heard him offer to pick bones out of fish-a surreal moment. How

need to help

glanced at Sebastian, who was munching on strawberries with his feet propped

know, she had graduated from Crestwood Hall Academy as the top student at the

he

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inspired by the fierce intelligence in her eyes,

tackle the first question. Make a sentence using “I, “ballet, ‘grandpa, ‘a, ‘principal, ‘performed, and

and blurted out without thinking, “The principal and grandpa performed a ballet for

you’re that influential to have

grandpa performed a ballet for

“Well, you are amazing.”