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 help!” Lucianne
and chapped lips. Even with her breaks between hacking, i t
“You should rest because you can hack longer after you’ve given yourself a longer break.” He knew that asking her to rest
muttered, “Huh.
didn’t argue. “Promise me, sweetheart. No more
whisper
no location was mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake or his supplier was at the moment, whatever she gathered
worry everyone present
they call the King’s Authority shield
clarified. That’s just what I think, Ray. They didn’t say it was the shield from the Authority
off like he always
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 for the Oleander, was it?” Lucianne nodded
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 another
him. As he held onto his Luna’s hand, he declared with a ferocious glint in his eye, “We need to
were firm nods of agreement around the room, and everyone stared at the map on
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off, Xandar kissed Lucianne’s hands before he asked with starry eyes, “Let me
renovation the evening before. When they were in the hallway leading to the room, Xandar covered her eyes
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
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
place a soft feeling,
do you think, baby?” Xandar asked. He actually
right words. The only thing that came out was,
“About a week ago. I got someone
at this place! I never thought a reading wonderland could look this amazing!” Lucianne’s eyes started scanning the room again in
relief, and pecked a kiss on her temple before he uttered,
said,
whispering a reminder, “Know this, my
glistening eyes, she smiled
room to look at the space in more detail, Xandar
“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
the refreshments table in the earlier stages of their relationship. “Mmm…” he pulled her waist closer to himself
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