The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King novel Chapter 155

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.”

“But why? I can help!” Lucianne said.

Xandar’s thumb traced her slightly pale cheeks and chapped lips. Even with her breaks between hacking, i t was conspicuous that it was taking a toll on her energy.

The King 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 listen, so he gave this reason instead.

Lucianne blinked and muttered, “Huh. That’s actually true.”

Xandar and his animal were intemally relieved that Lucianne didn’t argue. “Promise me, sweetheart. No more for today, okay?”

“Okay.” Lucianne responded in an affectionate whisper before pecking a kiss on his nose.

She then told everyone about 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 enough to

worry everyone present

“So, they call the King’s Authority shield a ‘shell’.” Raden thought aloud.

Lucianne immediately clarified. That’s just what I think, Ray. They didn’t say it was the shield from the Authority so

“We doubt it’s anything else, Lucy.” Tate cut her off like he always did whenever she doubted her good guesses.

Juan muttered, ‘Jake asked his supplier 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 nodded in confirmation

She then added, “Also, Juan, we shouldn’t think that they have zero amount of Oleander left in their hideout. It’s 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 have will be enough for them to survive another battle.”

Then our next step 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 to find them and destroy them before next week, before they get the Oleander and the shell.”

There were firm nods of agreement around the room, and everyone stared at the map on the board one more time before calling it a day.

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After seeing them off, Xandar kissed Lucianne’s hands before he asked with starry eyes, “Let me show you something.”