The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 522

The man stood before the hearth in the living room. His gaze was fixed on the landscape painting hanging above it.

In rural America, it was customary for each household to hang a painting like that, a symbol of bellef, used in celebrations and festivities.

Typically, by 11 or 12 at night, most people in the village would have retired to bed, leaving only the sounds of chirping crickets and hooting owls.

Unexpectedly, Thalassa found her living room fully lit at that late hour.

The man standing in the center of the room had chestnut hair and donned a black and white tracksuit.

His attire was casual and youthful, but the figure he cut, staring at the painting, was desolate and melancholy.

The man was tall and slender, radiating an aura of cultured warmth.

It was Leopold!

Upon seeing him, Thalassa’s breath hitched.

Leopold was missing, had used all her connections to search for him

was in her house.

swirled, and there

on a woman entering with two children. His gaze then shifted to a familiar

out on his melancholy face as he said,

his eyes fell on the two other little girls Thalassa was holding.

chubby, and

flickered and his smile froze as he asked, “Thalassa,

before Thalassa could respond. Her voice

was shocked, and disbelief washed over him, followed

it confirmed had knocked the

and Atticus by the hand, glared at Leopold, “What are you doing here in the middle of the night? You should be over at Isabella

with hostility and

years before, when Thalassa had first mentioned having a boyfriend, she had told Evelyn it was serious.

Leopold slept with