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.

was missing, had used all her connections

he was in

and there was a

around, and his eyes landed on a

smile broke out on his melancholy face as

to engage in small talk when his eyes fell on the

chubby, and utterly

eyes flickered and his smile froze as he asked,

interrupted before Thalassa could respond. Her voice

Leopold was shocked, and disbelief washed over him, followed by

knocked the

here in the middle of the night? You should

with

first mentioned having a boyfriend, she had told Evelyn it was serious. She said that they were talking about

slept with Isabella

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