The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 382

Compared to the usual bustling atmosphere, filled with the comforting scent of freshly baked cookies and the excited chatter of children rushing to greet her, the house now seemed cold and eerily quiet.

Thalassa felt her heart sink, a subconscious worry and fear setting in.

Hadn’t Evelyn brought the children back home?

Why wasn’t anyone around?

After a moment of panic, she remembered. Elowen was on television, competing in the semi-finals of the gourmet competition.

Evelyn must still be out with the children, she reasoned.

A bit calmer, Thalassa quickly took her discharged cell phone to her room to charge.

Once the phone was plugged in, Thalassa noticed another oddity: The blankets in the room were neatly folded, just as she had left them. They were undisturbed.

Even the household items remained the same.

If the children were back, there would surely be signs of their presence.

house was still as tidy as when she had left,

she looked around, the more unsettling

finally calmed down,

phone only just beginning to charge, she couldn’t wait. She pressed

on the

charging, she

a long time, unanswered.

calmly waiting at first, but later Thalassa’s heart started racing as the ringing continued.

a while before finally dying

again. Again, no one answered.

still, she called Hertha.

two rings, the

excitement. “Thalassa, you finally showed up. I thought you disappeared off the face

her worry and

no time for small talk. She was worried about the children