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.

it was his most genuine and joyful self. So often, it seemed

didn’t have someone she loved,

initially closed her eyes simply because she

or the pain in her arm slowly fading, as soon as her eyelids shut, a wave of exhaustion

the car, and Orion, whose gaze had been

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had earlier, Xanthea curled up in the seat with her small figure. The sleeping girl seemed incredibly sweet and docile, like a sleeping beauty

so, he

leaned in slowly, inch by inch towards the sleeping

days, who had finally found his poison, greedily