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.”

finish, Queenie

went to see Xan, why are you in such a

corridor, looking around desperately until she

“Ori.”

filled with joy as she called out,

It wasn’t just him.

struggling but unable

he might consume her alive, losing all his usual aloofness and polished

moment, he seemed like a completely different person, crazed

red hem of the fox

the rumors

Queenie’s

imagined that even 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 really fall in

about someone.

Queenie saw him passionately kissing the girl in his arms, even if forcefully, he was

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