My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 146

In the grand hall of the mansion.

“Leo!”

Queenie rushed in from outside, breathless. Spotting Leonard emerging from the study but without Orion in sight, she urgently asked, “Where’s Ori? Where is he?”

“What do you need him for?”

Leonard sipped his red wine leisurely, a hiss escaping his lips in appreciation.

It was a vintage treasure indeed, rich and full–bodied from just a sip, intoxicatingly so. Earlier, Xanthea had downed a whole glass and was likely to be fast asleep shortly.

Leonard had hoped to use the wine to create an opportunity for Orion tonight, but it seemed his plan had backfired.

“I need to talk to him urgently, stop asking and just tell me!”

“He just stepped out, went down the west corridor to find Xan.”

he could finish, Queenie turned and dashed

Xan, why are you in

looking around desperately until she finally spotted a tall, striking figure at the

“Ori.”

as she

It wasn’t just him.

desperately struggling but unable to escape his overpowering

such ferocity it seemed he might consume her alive, losing all his

seemed like a completely

fiery red hem of the fox dress and covered her

rumors

Yet, what broke Queenie’s heart wasn’t

Orion had a girlfriend, it would just be a cold, arranged marriage, or a

naturally cold and distant as him wouldn’t really fall in

about someone.

him passionately kissing the girl in his arms, even if forcefully, he was drowning in it,