Chapter 137

“Ms. Nightshade, have you forgotten?”

Orion noticed her silence and loosened his grip around her waist by an inch.

“Do you need me to put you down so you can recall properly?”

“No, no, no!” Xanthea squeaked immediately, wishing she could bite his neck off, yet obediently cooed, “I haven’t forgotten, O–Ori, Orl!”

Listening to her melodious voice, tinged with a hint of coquetry, Orion tightened his hold on her waist. “What’s this “Ori‘?”

That despicable man, that freak, she had to endure it all!

Xanthea’s hands, clasped behind his neck, silently balled into fists. “I like Ori. I like Ori!”

“Who likes Ori?”

Unable to bear it any longer, Xanthea opened her mouth to bite his neck. “Orion, this is too much!”

Just as her sharp teeth neared Orion’s neck, Orion moved his hand slightly, and Xanthea immediately withdrew her teeth. “Me, me, it’s me!”

commanded, “Put it all together, say it

uncompromising tone, Xanthea trembled with anger, biting him was no

she vowed to tear him

like Ori, I like Ori, I like Ori, okay? Is that enough?

the vast, desolate valley, rebounding in the

serene smile.

you can take me out of

teeth, her anger

“Of course.”

and Xanthea sighed a heavy sigh of relief, she suddenly felt him halt, her heart skipping a

new trick

at a patch of swaying grass on a cliff, his gaze sharpening. “Ahead, there

Xanthea was puzzled.

of the Marlowe family to see irises and had stumbled into a snake

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trick, could it

thought you

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