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.

back, there would surely

as tidy as when she had left, with no trace of the children.

she looked around, the more unsettling it

heart, which had finally calmed

she couldn’t

turned on the

the charging, she dialed Evelyn’s

for a long time, unanswered.

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

for a while before finally

tried again. Again,

sit still, she called Hertha.

the call was

mix of surprise and excitement. “Thalassa, you finally showed up. I thought

could hear her

small talk. She was worried about the children