The underworld queen come back and slays novel Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Cassian paused for a beat, startled by what he’d just heard. Then, the smile in his eyes deepened, and something sharper flashed across them.

“Let’s go,” he said simply.

Before Raven could even react, he had already grabbed her hand and was leading her away with such purpose and speed it was as if the rest of the academy had ceased to exist.

He didn’t slow, didn’t hesitate, heading straight for the one place few students dared to venture near–the ancient Archive Hall beside the president’s office.

Raven raised a brow in mild amusement, letting herself be led without resistance. Her gaze drifted to his back, and a faint, knowing smile began to curl at her lips.

Moments later, they stood before the grand double doors of the Archive Hall. Cassian pushed them open without hesitation, and as the doors creaked inward, warm golden light spilled out across the stone steps.

The moment they stepped inside, the heavy doors swung shut behind them with a dull boom, locking out anyone who might’ve been foolish enough to follow.

Just as the room fell silent again, Raven turned.

Without warning, her hand came up and pressed firmly against the stone wall beside Cassian’s head–classic kabedon position, clean and practiced.

Cassian blinked. Something about this felt… off.

But before he could put his finger on it, Raven leaned in, her lips tilted in a chill, teasing smile, and her voice brushed his ear like silk over steel.

“Going through so much trouble just to seduce me?” she said softly. “Go on–what’s your endgame?”

Cassian was speechless.

Raven watched the flicker of confusion pass over his face and couldn’t stop the slight gleam of amusement that lit up her eyes. Still, her tone dropped a few degrees colder as she added, “Not talking? Trying to play the shy game with me now? Or are you going to say you’re just madly in love with me?”

Now he got it.

He’d been… cast in the role of the flustered little love interest?

For a brief second, he hesitated. But then, instead of resisting, his lips curled into that familiar, wickedly seductive smirk. “And what if I do want something from you? You’d give it to me if I asked?”

Raven narrowed her eyes, unimpressed. “You?” she scoffed. “You’re just a pretty face with no real weight. You’re nowhere near the level to be making demands.”

Her gaze swept over his features, slow and deliberate, before she added coolly, “Thirty dollars. I’ll buy you for a night.”

Cassian’s smirk froze.

She’d said it so casually, with the air of someone bestowing a favor. Thirty dollars? That was all?

Raven caught the change in his expression and smirked faintly. “Not happy?” she asked. “Fine. Thirty–five.”

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13-04 Mon, 21 Apr

Chapter 147

Cassian said nothing, his jaw tightening.