My Beloved Has Risen from Death's Embrace novel Chapter 302

“I don't even know when it started. Maybe it was during those days you helped me rehearse my scenes, maybe it was that night at the Marlowe family's house, or perhaps it was when you made me the first meal, or maybe it was on my coming-of-age day when I looked at you for the first time and felt drawn to you.

The point is, I love you, I really love you so much. It's all my fault for being too slow to recognize my feelings, for not telling you sooner, which led to me hurting you over and over again. I'm sorry, truly sorry...”

“Orion, please don't go, okay?”

“I was wrong, I truly was. It won't happen again, I promise.”

Xanthea hugged her knees, burying her face in sorrow and crying, unaware that the elevator numbers remained unchanged after the doors closed.

”Ding—”

As her last word fell, the elevator doors slowly opened again.

Inside, a man looked down at her with eyes full of unrealistic doubts and an almost frenzied intensity.

Was all of this true?

Not a delusion born from his excessive longing and desperate desire?

His Xan, did she like him too?

“Thank goodness, thank goodness!”

Behind him, Cedric and Jacob, hearing the exchange, were thrilled.

So, Ms. Nightshade did have feelings for the boss. It had all been a misunderstanding!

Hearing the sound, Xanthea slowly lifted her tear-stained face, and upon seeing Orion, her eyes lit up with hope again.

She reached out, her eyes brimming with tears, looking at him so pitifully she seemed like a drenched kitten begging to be taken home. “Orion, you won't leave me, will you?”

In the next moment, she was pulled into a fierce embrace by the man who rushed out of the elevator, as if he needed to merge her into his very being to find peace.