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!” Lucianne
Even with her breaks between hacking, i t was conspicuous that it was taking a
uttered, “You should rest because you can hack longer after you’ve given yourself a longer break.” He knew that asking her
muttered,
and his animal were intemally relieved that Lucianne didn’t argue. “Promise
whisper before pecking a kiss on
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
King’s Authority shield a ‘shell’.” Raden
what I think, Ray. They didn’t say it
doubt it’s anything else, Lucy.” Tate cut her off like
e looked at his Gamma and asked, “A week or so for the
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
hand, he declared with a ferocious glint in his eye, “We need to
at the
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he asked with starry eyes, “Let
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,
next 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
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.
more empty bookshelves resembling those below. The wall and floor lamps gave the place
do you think, baby?” Xandar asked. He actually looked
the right words. The only thing that
ago. I
thought a reading wonderland could look this amazing!” Lucianne’s eyes started scanning the
sighed with relief, and pecked a kiss on her temple before he uttered, “I’m glad you like
and said, “Thank you, Xandar. You really didn’t have
reminder, “Know this, my love: if it makes you happy, I’ll d o
eyes, she smiled
the room to look at the space in more detail, Xandar mentioned
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 quite embarrassing, your
continued their act from the refreshments table in the earlier stages of their relationship. “Mmm…” he pulled her waist closer to himself as he
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