Chapter 155
Jake was linking someone, When will it arrive?’
meo
‘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 help!”
her slightly pale cheeks and chapped lips. Even with her breaks between hacking, i t was conspicuous that it was taking a toll
you can hack longer after you’ve given yourself
and muttered,
didn’t argue. “Promise me, sweetheart. No more for
affectionate whisper before pecking a kiss
then told everyone about what she learned. Although no location was mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake or his supplier was at the
worry everyone present
the King’s Authority shield
clarified. That’s just what I think, Ray. They didn’t say it was the shield from
cut her off like he always did whenever she
next attack is just around the corner.” H e looked
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 execute whatever their client has asked them to do. As for
with a ferocious glint in his eye, “We need to find them and destroy them before
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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before he asked with starry eyes, “Let me
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
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
three-layered curtains pushed to the sides. The grey sofas formed a circle in the middle, and the colored cushions made the sitting area
wall and floor lamps gave the place a soft feeling, but most of the work of lighting up the large room was actually done by the
think, baby?” Xandar asked. He actually
mouth and was groping for the right words. The only thing
hands and said, “About a week ago. I got someone
a reading wonderland could look this amazing!”
with relief, and pecked a kiss on her temple
his cheek and said, “Thank you, Xandar. You really didn’t have
her with a kiss before whispering a reminder, “Know this, my love: if it makes you happy, I’ll d
glistening eyes, she smiled
detail, Xandar mentioned that the
be rid of all the noise and dust from the renovation. And to think you
smiled broadly as he continued their act from the refreshments table in the earlier stages of their relationship. “Mmm…” he pulled her waist closer to himself as he said,
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