Chapter 155

Jake was linking someone, When will it arrive?’

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‘In a week or so.’ A woman’s voice linked in response.

‘And if I need it earlier? What’s the price?’

That’s not possible. You know how long it takes to synthesize Oleander.’

‘Can’t you speed up the process?!’

We could. But the quality would be sub-par. Would you accept a product of inferior quality?’

Jake groaned. ‘Fine. And the other one? The shell?

The ingredients for that are harder to collect. It will take more time. We need a month, at least. You’ve run out of that already?’

‘No. But supply is running low.’

What did you do? Ingest it just for fun?’

Lucianne was brought out of the link by Xandar shaking her shoulders and calling out her name. The room was silent. Xandar’s eyes were partially onyx, worried and angered, as he asked in a low voice,” What were you doing, Lucy?” 1

Lucianne swallowed a lump in her throat, and said in a small voice, “I may have…hacked into Jake’s link with his supplier.”

“COOL!” Christian exclaimed.

Xandar glanced briefly at his cousin and said, “Christian, don’t encourage this.” He turned back to his mate and spoke as gently as he could, “Sweetheart, we agreed that we were done for the day.”

With her doe-eyes, she justified meekly, “It was kind of tempting to do. I couldn’t help myself.”

Xandar sighed in frustration before pecking a kiss between her eyebrows and saying, “Promise me, Lucy. Promise me you won’t do that again for the rest of today.”

can

pale cheeks and chapped lips. Even with her breaks between hacking, i t was conspicuous that it was taking a toll on her

his stubbom Queen before he uttered, “You should rest because you can hack longer after you’ve given yourself a longer break.” He knew that asking her to rest for her own sake would never convince her to listen, so he gave

blinked and muttered, “Huh. That’s

and his animal were intemally relieved that Lucianne didn’t argue. “Promise

an affectionate whisper before pecking a

Although no location was mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake or his supplier was at

worry everyone present

call the King’s Authority shield a

That’s just what I think, Ray. They didn’t say it was the shield from the

else, Lucy.” Tate cut her off

to speed up, meaning the next attack is just around the corner.” H e looked at his Gamma and asked,

hideout. It’s more likely that whatever they have left is not enough to execute whatever their client has asked them to do. As for the

declared with a ferocious glint in his eye, “We need to find them and destroy them before next week, before they get

were firm nods of agreement around the room, and everyone stared at the map on the board one more time before calling it

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Lucianne’s hands before he asked with starry

gently, he led her to the part of the house where the contractor had just completed the renovation the evening before. When they were in the hallway leading to the room, Xandar covered her eyes with one hand and guided her by her

widened and her mouth hung open in shock when she read the sign next to the closed door that said ‘Lucianne’s Reading Wonderland’ with a painted border of freesias. As Xandar held her small hand, h

looked around the double-storey room with golden oak walls and a floor-to ceiling window right in the middle, with three-layered curtains pushed to the sides. The grey

left and right ends, there were spiral staircases leading to even more empty bookshelves resembling those below. The wall and floor lamps gave the place a soft feeling, but most of the work of lighting up the large room was

baby?” Xandar asked. He actually looked

groping for the right words. The only thing that came out was, “

a week ago. I got someone to fix this

this place! I never thought a reading wonderland could look this

on her temple before

kissed him on his cheek and said, “Thank you, Xandar. You

silenced her with a kiss before whispering a reminder, “Know this, my love: if it makes you happy, I’ll

eyes, she smiled and uttered, “Thank

they walked around the room to look at the space in more detail, Xandar mentioned

place to stay to be rid of all the noise and dust from the renovation. And to think you wanted to share

as he continued their act from the refreshments table in the earlier stages of their relationship. “Mmm…” he pulled her waist

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