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.”

why? I can help!”

Even with her breaks between hacking, i t was conspicuous that it was taking a toll

hack longer after you’ve given yourself a

blinked and muttered, “Huh. That’s actually

Lucianne didn’t argue. “Promise me, sweetheart.

an affectionate whisper before pecking a kiss

for them to pinpoint where Jake or his supplier was at the moment, whatever

worry everyone present

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

I think, Ray. They didn’t

Tate cut her off

attack is just around the corner.” H e looked at his Gamma and asked,

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

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 get the

agreement around the room, and everyone stared at the map on the board one more time before calling it

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he asked with starry eyes, “Let me show you

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,

mouth hung open in shock when she read the sign next to the closed door that said ‘Lucianne’s Reading Wonderland’ with a painted border of freesias. As Xandar held her

floor-to 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 cushions made the sitting area comforting and welcoming. Around the sofas were empty bookshelves made of acacia

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

think, baby?” Xandar asked. He actually

for the right words. The only thing that came out was,

ago. I got someone to fix this

I never thought a reading wonderland could

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

his cheek and said, “Thank you, Xandar. You

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

eyes, she smiled and uttered,

the space in more detail, Xandar mentioned that the work started when he

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

smiled broadly as he continued their act from the refreshments table in the earlier stages of their relationship. “Mmm…” he pulled her

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