The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 489

Sophia had once bought the circular pendant as a toy in that shop.

The owner, a middle-aged woman was wiping away her tears as she turned the sign on the door from ‘Open’ to ‘Closed’.

This sorrowful scene struck a chord in Thalassa’s heart. She approached the woman and asked, “Ma’am, it’s barely eleven in the morning, and that’s prime business hours. Why are you closing up so early?”

The shopkeeper, startled by the sudden interaction, awkwardly wiped her tears away and replied, “There’s been a family emergency, and we can’t manage the store

anymore.”

Upon saying this, the shopkeeper couldn’t hold back her tears anymore.

and her friend Hertha exchanged a glance before asking, “What kind of emergency could lead to a close-up?”

feat, and no one would willingly give up unless it

surgery and treatment cost more than one million three hundred thousand dollars. We’ve used all our savings and even put the shop up for sale, but we’re still short of twenty thousand. We honestly don’t know what to do…” The shopkeeper

sank. As a mother herself, she could understand the woman’s grief and desperation.

I’m going to send you twenty thousand dollars so your

shopkeeper was taken aback. She looked at Thalassa incredulously, as

surprised, though. This was the Thalassa

can’t just accept your money just like that… The

the circular pendant you sold me? We thought it was just a toy but it turned out to be an antique

would have just treated it like a toy, broken it, or swept it into the trash can and thrown it