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

see Xan, why are you in such a

until she finally spotted a tall, striking figure at the

“Ori.”

with joy as

It wasn’t just him.

another figure, desperately struggling but unable to escape his overpowering

girl wildly, with such ferocity it seemed he might consume her

like a completely

of the fox dress and covered her

the rumors

really was Orion’s girlfriend. Yet, what broke Queenie’s heart wasn’t this

be a cold, arranged marriage, or a decorative vase set aside to appease

naturally cold and distant as him wouldn’t really fall in love, let alone be

about someone.

if forcefully, he was drowning in it, indistinguishable from