Chapter 514

The night was as dark as ink. Underneath the elevated highway, beside a pond, insects chirped, and frogs croaked. The scent of fresh grass lingered in the air, blending with the night’s mist, touching their skin with a cold chill.

That chill seemed to seep into their hearts, stirring up fear.

Thalassa, with her four children and Evelyn, hid in a ditch beneath the highway.

In front of them, the pond shimmered in the moonlight, and its depth was concealed by the darkness, a sight that brought fear to their hearts.

Yes, fear.

She had noticed a line of black limousines in the traffic behind them, and it had filled her with dread.

At that moment, she decided to get out of the taxi.

Thankfully, it was nighttime. She and Evelyn managed to slip unnoticed from the taxi to the one up front.

Once the taxi had driven through the traffic lights, she realized that the driver would surely inform Lysander they had boarded his taxi.

If Lysander caught up with them, there would have been no escape.

driver to stop. They

refused. But Thalassa handed him a hundred

the taxi, a

but it served as a perfect cover. She led her children and Evelyn, sneaking around the

dangerous places were often the

they had not fled but had stayed right where they

beneath the grass, mosquitoes were

their higher body heat

whimper as she spoke, “Mommy, it’s

big bumps all

Atticus were also stomping their little feet to

their itchiness. She was both sympathetic and helpless, “Just ten more minutes and we’ll leave,

children to be bitten by mosquitoes, and

no choice. She was

he caught them, not only would the children suffer, but she

of the pain Lysander had inflicted

them, she didn’t dare think of the

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