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!” Lucianne

cheeks and chapped lips. Even with her breaks between hacking,

thought hard about what to tell his stubbom Queen before he uttered, “You should rest because 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

muttered,

didn’t argue.

in an affectionate whisper before pecking a kiss

about what she learned. Although no location was mentioned for them to pinpoint where Jake or his supplier was at the moment,

worry everyone present

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

I think, Ray. They didn’t say it was the shield

off like he always did whenever she doubted her good

the next attack is just around the corner.” H e looked at his

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

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, “We need

stared at the map on the board

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kissed Lucianne’s hands before he

evening before. When they were in the hallway leading to the room, Xandar covered her eyes with one hand and guided her

read the sign 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

with golden oak walls and a 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

the 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

you think, baby?” Xandar asked. He actually

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

her hands and said, “About a week ago. I got someone to

Look at this place! I never thought a reading wonderland could look this amazing!” Lucianne’s eyes started scanning the room again

relief, and pecked a kiss on her temple before he uttered, “I’m glad you like it,

on his cheek and said, “Thank you,

silenced her with a kiss before whispering a reminder, “Know this, my love: if it makes you happy, I’ll d o

she smiled and

in more detail, Xandar mentioned that the work started when he moved into her

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

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

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