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.”

Queenie turned and dashed

to see Xan, why are you in

desperately until she finally

“Ori.”

with joy as

It wasn’t just him.

figure, desperately struggling but

the girl wildly, with such ferocity it seemed he might consume her alive, losing all his

this moment, he seemed like a completely different person,

fiery red hem of the fox dress and covered her

the rumors

what broke Queenie’s heart wasn’t this realization but

if Orion had a girlfriend, it would just be a cold, arranged marriage, or a decorative vase set aside to appease

as him wouldn’t

about someone.

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