The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 300

Thalassa and Evelyn headed out with four kids in tow, off to browse the nearby mall.

Usually, Evelyn didn’t let Thalassa take the kids to places where they might splurge a lot.

But today, the kids had been waiting for Thalassa to return home, feeling a bit spooked and hard done by.

The kids were pretty savvy, not throwing tantrums even when they were scared, saving her from a headache. So, Evelyn figured that they deserved a treat for handling the situation calmly and off to the mall they went.

Inside the mall, Sophia instantly glued herself to a toy store and refused to budge.

Her eyes were fixed on a circular pendant that looked like it had been dug out of the dirt, with cracks filled with soil stains that wouldn’t wash off, looking all grubby and worn.

Thalassa squatted down and asked her, “Sophia, do you want to buy a toy?”

of excitement, nodded,

pointed at the plush toy area and asked her with a smile, “Which plush toy do you like? Just pick one and I’ll buy it.”

hand towards that circular pendant in the

pendant, she said, “This probably isn’t for sale, right? Just some old junk?”

nothing fun about it, she suggested to Sophia,

her head, her eyes full of stubbornness

pang in her heart. She didn’t want to upset her daughter, so she walked into the toy store and asked the shopkeeper, “Excuse me, how

her, “Circular pendant? We don’t sell those

the front of the store, picked up the circular pendant from the corner, and showed it to him, “This one, my daughter really

by my son at the beach yesterday when he was playing in the sand. He played with it for a bit and then left it in the store. It was probably a toy that some kid left in the sand, and my son dug it

was initially planning to persuade Sophia to look at other toys, but seeing Sophia’s

was usually very well-behaved and obedient, cooler

never the type to