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.”

I can help!”

slightly pale cheeks and chapped lips. Even with her breaks between hacking, i

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,

muttered, “Huh. That’s actually

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

responded in an affectionate whisper before pecking

no location was mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake or his supplier was at the moment, whatever she gathered from eavesdropping was

worry everyone present

the King’s Authority shield a ‘shell’.” Raden

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

else, Lucy.” Tate cut her off like he always did whenever she doubted

his supplier to speed up, meaning the next attack is just around the corner.” H e looked at his Gamma and asked, “A week or so

“Also, Juan, we shouldn’t think that they have zero amount of Oleander left in their hideout. It’s more likely that whatever they have left is not enough to

to him. As he held onto his Luna’s hand, he declared with a ferocious glint in his

the room, and everyone stared at the map on the board one more time before calling it

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off, Xandar kissed Lucianne’s hands before he asked with starry eyes, “Let me

had just completed the renovation the evening before. When they were in the hallway leading to

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 e twisted open the door knob and gently pushed the door open to reveal a large

she 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 sofas formed a circle in the middle, and the colored cushions made the sitting area comforting and welcoming. Around the sofas were

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

think, baby?” Xandar

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

her hands and said, “About a week ago. I got someone to fix this up. Is it

insane, Xandar?! Look at this place! I never thought a reading wonderland could look this amazing!” Lucianne’s eyes started scanning the room again in

pecked a kiss on her temple

and said, “Thank you, Xandar.

a kiss before whispering a reminder, “Know this, my love:

she smiled and uttered,

more detail, Xandar

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

the refreshments table in the earlier stages of their relationship. “Mmm…” he pulled

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