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.”

why? I can help!”

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

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

blinked and muttered, “Huh. That’s

and his animal were intemally relieved that Lucianne didn’t

affectionate whisper before pecking

what she learned. Although no location was mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake or

worry everyone present

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

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

doubt it’s anything else, Lucy.” Tate cut her off like

meaning the next attack is just around the corner.” H e looked at his Gamma and asked, “A week

they have left is not enough to execute whatever their client has asked them to do. As

is simple.” Zeke said, and everyone turned their attention to him. As he held onto his Luna’s hand, he declared with a ferocious glint in his eye, “We need to find them and destroy them before next week, before

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

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he asked with starry eyes, “Let

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 waist with his other hand. When they reached the

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

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 empty bookshelves

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

you think, baby?” Xandar asked. He actually

the right words. The only thing that came out was, “ How?

a week ago. I got someone to fix this up.

a reading wonderland could look this amazing!” Lucianne’s eyes started scanning the

relief, and pecked a kiss on her temple before he uttered, “I’m glad you

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

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

smiled and

detail, Xandar mentioned that the work started when he moved into

turned on. “Ah, so you just needed a place to stay to be rid of all the noise and dust from the renovation. And to think you wanted to share a room together because I was something special to you. Gosh, this is quite embarrassing, your

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

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