Chapter 158

*Nothing much, it was off and on so I didn’t catch it all. Just bits and pieces, so I wanted to hear your side of the story.”

As Matthew spoke, he swept a glance downstairs; with a pleading look, he asked, “Is that okay, Xan?”

“Alright.”

Xanthea’s eyes flickered as she searched her mind for the right words. No matter what, she had to smooth over last night’s conversation perfectly – no suspicions from his side, no flaws in her plan for revenge!

“Really?” Matthew’s face lit up with excitement, “That’s great; let’s go!”

I

“Ms. Marlowe, I appreciate your apology, but I have an urgent matter today and can’t stay for lunch, sorry.”

As Xanthea and Matthew descended the stairs, they brushed past Orion.

“Xanthea!” Leonard called out to her, puzzled by her sudden change of heart, “You’re not staying? This breakfast is…”

pay you for the dress, and about the m you a proper

“Ms. Nightshade.”

to dinner next

Xanthea nodded at

“Ms. Nightshade.”

take his eyes off her departing figure. His

clothes, and had personally cooked an elaborate breakfast, even going as far as to procure the seafood sea urchin from Everglade, spending two hours meticulously cooking this

forming droplet of blood on his fingertip. Yet, Ms. Nightshade not only didn’t stay for

to everyone else, so why couldn’t she even speak a

all. Perhaps he was now in

crab cakes, sticky rice,

lid and handed her the breakfast, “Have some

N

need, I’m not

you last night? That made you come looking for

I just sensed something was off on your end and rushed

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