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
traced her slightly pale cheeks and chapped lips. Even with her breaks between hacking, i t was conspicuous that it was taking
rest because you can hack longer after you’ve given yourself a longer break.” He knew that asking
and muttered, “Huh.
were intemally relieved that Lucianne didn’t argue. “Promise me, sweetheart. No more
in an affectionate whisper before pecking a kiss on his
no location was mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake or his supplier was at the
worry everyone present
call the King’s Authority
They didn’t say it was the
Lucy.” Tate cut her off like he always did whenever she
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
then added, “Also, Juan, we shouldn’t 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 the shell..I don’t know if whatever they have
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 they
around the room, and everyone stared at the map on the board one more time before calling it
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Xandar kissed Lucianne’s hands before he asked with
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,
a painted border of freesias. As
the sides. The grey sofas formed a circle in the middle, and the
even more empty bookshelves resembling those below. The wall and floor lamps gave the place a soft feeling,
do you think, baby?” Xandar
mouth and was groping for the right words. The only thing
hands and said, “About a week ago. I got someone to fix this up. Is it
a reading wonderland could
on her
kissed him on his cheek and said, “Thank you, Xandar. You really
reminder, “Know this, my love: if it makes you happy, I’ll d o
smiled and uttered, “Thank
space in more detail, Xandar mentioned that the work started when he moved into her hotel
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,
earlier stages of their relationship.
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