My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

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Back then, Cedric didn’t understand why Orion was so enamored with Xanthea, utterly captivated by her.

Today, having witnessed their intimate, flirtatious exchanges, seemingly oblivious to the world around them, Cedric finally got it.

Although Cedric had been by Orion’s side for years, he’d never seen Orion like this.

With Xanthea, Orion seemed alive, vibrant and splendid, joking, feeling jealous, getting angry, and even doing some domineering yet childish things. He truly behaved like a twenty–year–old young man hopelessly in love.

It was not like the usual decisive, fearsome chairman of Twin Towers, nor the cold, workaholic head of the Lockwood Group, who usually exuded a maturity and chill beyond his peers.

that seemed so unlike him, yet perhaps it was his most genuine and joyful self. So often, it seemed Orion

someone she

simply because she didn’t want to

pain in her arm slowly fading, as soon as her eyelids shut, a wave

even, soft breathing filled the car, and Orion, whose gaze had been fixed on a dense

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sleeping girl seemed incredibly sweet and docile, like a sleeping beauty from the fairytale, unrealistically perfect, irresistibly inviting one to touch, to

he did

leaned in slowly, inch by inch towards

starved for days, who had finally found his poison,