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.”

I can help!” Lucianne

breaks between hacking, i t was conspicuous that it was taking a toll on her

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

and muttered, “Huh. That’s

didn’t argue. “Promise

affectionate whisper before pecking a kiss on his

told everyone about what she learned. Although no location was mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake or his supplier was at the moment, whatever she gathered from eavesdropping

worry everyone present

call the King’s Authority shield a

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

off like he

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

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 the shell..I don’t know if whatever they have will be enough for them to survive

declared with a ferocious glint

around the room, and everyone stared at the map on the board one more time

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he asked with starry

where the contractor had just completed the renovation the evening before. When they were in the hallway leading to the room, Xandar covered

the sign next to the closed door that said ‘Lucianne’s Reading Wonderland’ with a painted

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

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

think, baby?” Xandar asked.

was groping for the right words. The only

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

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

her temple before he uttered, “I’m glad you like it,

and said, “Thank you,

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

smiled

at the space in more detail, Xandar mentioned that the work started when he moved into her hotel

“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

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, “Looks like I’ve

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