My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 45

“Are you making fun of me?”

Orion shook his head, “Not at all.”

“Yes, you were!” Sebastian caught him red-handed, while Xanthea playfully pinched his cheek, “And you, have you always been this cheeky?”

“What can I say? There isn’t any other way to put it!”

Xanthea teased, “Is there a chance it was ‘I performed ballet for the principal”?”

Sebastian looked puzzled, “But I can’t ballet.”

“It’s not about whether you can dance or not.” Xanthea furrowed her brows, “Just write it down!.”

think your English needs a bit more work. Let’s start

I love math,

smiled, relieved, “Let’s solve a subtraction problem. 75 minus 16, set it up column-style. If 5

his

from the 7, and that’s what

interrupted,

5 is

7 doesn’t want

he was being deliberately obtuse, “Today, it has to lend whether it

above, sounding like mockery. Just moments ago, Xanthea had been confidently challenging him, and now she faced her first

she wondered if Sebastian really was Orion’s nephew. They say nephews are supposed to resemble their

and Sebastian

herself, Xanthea pressed on to