My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 147

“Come on, talk to me! I’m really worried about you, seriously worried. Just tell me where you are, I’ll come pick you up!”

“Xan! Xan? Xan?”

Though the call connected, no one spoke.

After a deathly long silence, Matthew seemed to sense something and paused for a few seconds, “Mr. Lockwood, is that you?”

The sound of fabric rustling and a girl’s faint whisper suddenly carried over.

Orion, in front of the glowing phone screen, madly kissed Xanthea’s pale, slender neck amidst his anxious

words of concern.

heard a moan too hard to bear, and

might be the powerful Crestwood tycoon, nor did he care about any potential retaliation; all he knew was that Xanthea was his girlfriend and off–limits to

you doing to Xan? Let her go! Right now! Taking

is criminal, I could sue you!” His threats were unheeded, his anxious pacing suddenly stopped, “Or, do you just like

thunderous crash came through,

to the

was holding onto a last shred of hope, which now shattered with the sound of the explosion. Why would Orion smash

gone mad? With any woman at his disposal, why insist on stealing Xanthea? Matthew had to find

as he crushed the phone in his hand. After a long

him leaving and quickly ran out, arms spread to block his

“Orl.”

spoke when she met his

he warning her not to

indulging towards