Chapter 137
“Ms. Nightshade, have you forgotten?”
Orion noticed her silence and loosened his grip around her waist by an inch.
“Do you need me to put you down so you can recall properly?”
“No, no, no!” Xanthea squeaked immediately, wishing she could bite his neck off, yet obediently cooed, “I haven’t forgotten, O–Ori, Orl!”
Listening to her melodious voice, tinged with a hint of coquetry, Orion tightened his hold on her waist. “What’s this “Ori‘?”
That despicable man, that freak, she had to endure it all!
Xanthea’s hands, clasped behind his neck, silently balled into fists. “I like Ori. I like Ori!”
“Who likes Ori?”
Unable to bear it any longer, Xanthea opened her mouth to bite his neck. “Orion, this is too much!”
Just as her sharp teeth neared Orion’s neck, Orion moved his hand slightly, and Xanthea immediately withdrew her teeth. “Me, me, it’s me!”
Orion commanded, “Put it all together, say it again.”
Hearing his uncompromising tone, Xanthea trembled with anger, biting him was no longer enough to ease her resentment.
Once she got out, she vowed to tear him apart!
“I like Ori, I like Ori, I like Ori, okay? Is that enough? Mr. Lockwood, are you satisfied now? Happy now? Got all your anger out?”
She exclaimed thrice, her voice echoing through the vast, desolate valley, rebounding in the dark night into Orion’s ears.
Orion’s eyes and brows tinged with a serene smile. “Hmm, Xan, I’m quite pleased, indeed quite comfortable.”
“Then you can take me out of here now, right?”
Xanthea spoke through gritted teeth, her anger nearly grinding her teeth to dust,
“Of course.”
As Orion turned, and Xanthea sighed a heavy sigh of relief, she suddenly felt him halt, her heart skipping a beat. “What now?”
What new trick was he playing?
Orion stared into the distance at a patch of swaying grass on a cliff, his gaze sharpening. “Ahead, there seems to be an iris.”
Xanthea was puzzled.
Again? The same excuse? She had been lured by that unscrupulous servant of the Marlowe family to see irises and had stumbled into a snake pit, chased by serpents!
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And now he was repeating the same trick, could it be he was in cahoots with that servant?
“I thought you loved irises.”
Orion looked down at her, tightening his grip, and without further ado, started walking towards the cliff
with her in his arms.
“No, no, no, you remembered wrong, I don’t like them! Not at all!”
“Don’t go there! There’s a snake pit! It’s full of snakes, so many snakes.”
“Orion, you bastard, you big liar! You promised if I called you ‘Ori‘, you’d take me out, liar, liar!”
Xanthea shrieked in fear, her hands pounding his sturdy chest, but no matter how much she resisted, she couldn’t stop his steps or break free from his embrace.
“Waaa.”
She lifted her desperate, beautiful face to the sky and cried out in sorrow, lika by a hunter, unable to escape.
“Help, someone save me, this freak Orion is going to feed me to the snakes!”
a helpless little fox caught