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 help!”

chapped lips. Even with her breaks between hacking, i t was conspicuous that it was taking a

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 gave this

and muttered, “Huh. That’s

Lucianne didn’t argue.

Lucianne responded in an affectionate whisper before pecking a kiss on

mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake

worry everyone present

the King’s Authority shield a ‘shell’.” Raden thought

Ray. They didn’t say it was the shield from

else, Lucy.” Tate cut her off like he always did whenever she doubted her

is just around the corner.” H e looked at his Gamma and asked, “A week or so for the Oleander, was it?”

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

step is 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,

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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them off, Xandar kissed Lucianne’s hands before he asked with starry eyes, “Let me show you

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

shock when she read the sign next to the closed door that said ‘Lucianne’s Reading Wonderland’ with a painted border

the middle, with three-layered curtains pushed to the sides. The grey sofas formed a circle in the middle, and the colored cushions made

far 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 lighting

think, baby?” Xandar asked.

was groping for the right words. The only thing that

took her hands and said, “About a week ago. I

reading wonderland could look this amazing!” Lucianne’s eyes started scanning the room again

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

cheek and said, “Thank you, Xandar. You really didn’t have

with a kiss before whispering a reminder, “Know this, my love: if it makes you happy,

glistening eyes, she smiled and

around the room to look at the space in more detail, Xandar mentioned that the work

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

from the refreshments table in the earlier stages of their relationship. “Mmm…”

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