The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

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.

immediately told the driver to stop. They needed to get

had initially refused. But Thalassa handed him a hundred dollars and told him to keep the

the taxi, a bus pulled up.

cover. She led her children and Evelyn, sneaking around the barrier and into the ditch beneath the highway.

were often the

they had not fled but had stayed

pond, beneath the

heat and tender

was constantly scratching. Her soft voice carried a whimper as she spoke, “Mommy, it’s so itchy. I don’t want

got big bumps all over,” Sophia

and Atticus were also stomping their little feet to shoo

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

children to be bitten by mosquitoes, and she didn’t want to be on the run with them.

no choice. She was terrified

to his child in secret. If he caught them, not only would the children suffer, but she would also

inflicted on her that morning was

didn’t dare think of the