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

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

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.

his animal were intemally relieved that Lucianne didn’t argue. “Promise me, sweetheart. No

an affectionate whisper before

no location was mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake or his supplier

worry everyone present

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

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

cut her off like he always did whenever she doubted her good

just around the corner.” H e looked at his Gamma and

likely that whatever they have left is not enough to execute whatever their client has asked them to do. As for the shell..I

Luna’s hand, he declared with a ferocious glint in his eye,

and everyone stared at

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hands before he asked with starry eyes, “Let me

smiled and nodded gently, he 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 door, he dropped his

Wonderland’ with a painted border of

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 empty bookshelves made of

left and 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

think, baby?” Xandar asked. He

the right words. The only thing

week ago. I got someone to fix

insane, Xandar?! Look at this place! I never thought a reading wonderland could look

pecked a kiss on her temple before he uttered,

cheek and said, “Thank you, Xandar. You

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

glistening eyes, she smiled and

space in more detail,

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

their act from the refreshments table in the earlier stages of their relationship. “Mmm…” he pulled her waist closer

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