Chapter 143
It didn’t make the hair on the back of my neck stand up anymore now that I knew she was a fraud.
Celeste led the four of us back into the dimly–lit room. To my disappointment, Ava was no longer in the room. It was only Celeste.
“What questions would you like me to ask the undead witches who came before me?” Celeste asked as she swirled her hands above the crystal ball on the table.
“I’d like to know who I’m going to get married to,” Alexander said.
I whipped my head around to gaze at him in surprise, but he wouldn’t meet my eyes. He was only looking at Celeste.
The ‘witch‘ nodded and passed him a pencil and a piece of paper. As she lit the candle on the table, she instructed Alexander to write down
his date of birth.
“You do it,” Alexander told mé.
Everyone looked at me, and I flushed under the scrutiny. With no choice, I just wrote down a random date.
Celeste read the piece of paper, looked between Alexander and me, then dipped the paper into the fire until it curled and turned black. As Celeste blew out the small fire, she closed her eyes and hummed.
When she opened her eyes, she looked right at Alexander. “The witches tell me that you need to cherish the person beside you.”
I had to resist the urge to roll my eyes. Really? Celeste couldn’t do any
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better than that?
But Alexander turned his head and looked at me with such burning intensity that it made my breath catch and my hands shake.
“What do you think that means, Olivia?” he asked, moving closer to me until the only thing I could focus on was his dark eyes, warm body, and delicious scent.
But I wasn’t ready for something like this, especially when we were surrounded by people.
My heart slammed against my rib cage as I panicked about what Alexander would do next.
“You can have this bracelet,” Celeste smiled slyly, “for the right price.”
“When it comes to love, money is no object for me,” Alexander said and glanced at me.
Celeste’s eyes twinkled with greed, but she tried to keep a straight face.
After Alexander bought the bracelet, he turned to me with a playful smile on his lips.
“Will you put it on me, please?” he murmured and looked at me like we were the only ones in the room.
“You’ve got to be—” I started to say, my tone very sarcastic, but Alexander widened his eyes at me to keep playing the part.
I had no choice but to go along with the act. As I clasped the bracelet onto his large wrist, my hands shook slightly from the close contact of his warm body.
A smug smile crossed Alexander’s face as if he knew the kind of effect that he was having on me.
“I could use some luck in love,” Richard said. “I’ll take the same bracelet as Alexander.”
Celeste smiled, and I knew that she was picturing money signs at this point. “I have some special rings that will bring good fortune for you and your girlfriend,” she gestured to Rose.

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