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

see Xan, why are you in such a

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

“Ori.”

as

It wasn’t just him.

another figure, desperately struggling but unable to escape

with such ferocity it seemed he might consume

a completely different person, crazed

the fiery red hem of the fox

rumors

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

had imagined that even if Orion had a girlfriend, it would just be a cold, arranged marriage, or

distant as him wouldn’t really fall in

about someone.

kissing the girl in his arms, even if forcefully, he was drowning in it, indistinguishable from any man lost in

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