My Beloved Has Risen from Death's Embrace novel Chapter 150

Orion stared at the girl intensely, his eyes shimmering with a fiery blaze as if he was hell-bent on devouring her whole in the fire. Until a flush of red crept up his cheeks, his heavy growl dissolved into the long night.

After a while, he tenderly and meticulously wiped the hem of her fairy-like dress and glanced at his hand blandly before heading toward the bathroom.

“No! Please no, don’t come any closer! There are snakes, so many snakes! Help me, Mom, Dad, help me!”

When Orion returned to the room, he found the girl thrashing in the throes of a nightmare, her hands flailing as if to ward off something.

“Xan?”

He approached her, and saw the sweat and terror on her face; brows furrowed slightly, he turned to grab a towel.

Unexpectedly, she grabbed his wrist immediately.

“Don’t go; don’t leave!”

“I’m not leaving, just grabbing something; I’ll be right back.”

“Don’t go.”

She kept muttering in fear, as if afraid he’d never return, her voice filled with frightened whimpers, “Dad.”

The girl’s trembling, sultry call of “dad” jolted Orion as if he’d been electrocuted, freezing him in place.

He narrowed his eyes, looking at the girl whose lips slightly parted, face wearing an expression as if she was begging for reassurance, “What did you just call me?”

“Dad.”

Little temptress, was she really trying to torment him to death? Orion closed his eyes, and gently kissed her forehead to comfort her, “It’s okay; everything’s okay now. There, there, no need to be scared anymore. I’m right here with you; you’re my beloved treasure.”