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.”

I can help!” Lucianne

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

“You should rest because you can hack longer after you’ve given yourself a longer

and muttered, “Huh.

were intemally relieved that Lucianne didn’t

whisper before

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

worry everyone present

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

immediately clarified. That’s just what I think, Ray. They didn’t say it

cut her off like he

to 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

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

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

of agreement around the room, and everyone stared at the map on the board one

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seeing them off, Xandar kissed Lucianne’s hands before he asked with starry eyes,

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 and guided her by her waist with his other hand. When they reached

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 small hand, h e twisted

three-layered curtains pushed to the sides. The grey sofas formed a circle

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 up the large room was

baby?” Xandar asked. He

was groping for the right words. The only

and said, “About a week ago. I got someone to fix this up. Is it

never thought a reading wonderland could look this amazing!” Lucianne’s

a kiss on her temple before he uttered, “I’m

and said, “Thank you, Xandar.

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

she smiled and

more detail, Xandar

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,

their relationship. “Mmm…” he pulled

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