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.

of Orion that seemed so unlike him, yet perhaps it was his

only Xanthea didn’t have someone she loved, if only

simply because she didn’t want to see

her arm slowly fading, as soon as her eyelids shut, a

had been fixed on

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figure. The sleeping girl seemed incredibly sweet and docile, like a sleeping beauty from the fairytale, unrealistically perfect, irresistibly inviting one

so, he did

leaned in slowly, inch by inch towards the

addict, starved for days, who