The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 148

When Lysander spoke, Thalassa went from feeling innocent to all sorts of tense and jumpy.

If she couldn’t explain things clearly, she might be up the creek without a paddle.

In a nap, she blurted out, “I didn’t swipe this, my neighbor Greta said she found it and was planning to give it back to me. I lost the exact same emerald pendant five years ago, everyone in the neighborhood knew about it. When Greta said she found my missing emerald pendant, I rushed back from Starhaven. I even gave her $300 as gratitude, But I didn’t know this emerald pendant was a phony.”

Despite her jumbled words, Lysander caught the important bits.

His eyes grew colder and filled with suspicion, “You’re saying you lost a real emerald pendant?”

A nearby cop was all at sea. The emerald pendant was clearly real. He was stumped.

Thalassa nodded frantically, her eyes welling up with innocent tears, her lips trembling slightly, she said in a hurt tone, “Yes, I lost a real one five years ago, I never found it.”

and lifted her chin with

flicker of her expression, “Was the

A man gave me that emerald pendant Celia passed away where she was three or four.” When he heard this, Lysander felt like he’d been struck by lightning, just like that stormy, rain-soaked night

and sparkling eyes, her petite face, and her cherry-like lips, everything

wonder he felt a deep sense of familiarity the first time he saw

scent, the feel of her skin, even

she was the woman he was

eyes, it seemed like there were stars twinkling in them, and a kind of inexplicable

her, his hand letting go of her chin, saying, “I’m bailing her out. As for the truth about the emerald pendant theft, it’ll be at

for

was a bit torn, about to refuse, but David

at what it was, but she

we’ll release her right