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.

was off. If the children were back, there would surely be

like the house was still as tidy as when she had left, with no

looked around, the more unsettling it felt.

had finally calmed down, started racing again..

she couldn’t wait.

turned on the

the charging, she dialed Evelyn’s

phone rang for a long time, unanswered.

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

while before finally dying down. Still, no

tried again. Again, no

to sit still, she

the call

and excitement. “Thalassa, you finally showed up. I thought you disappeared off the face of the earth.”

hear her

She was worried about the