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.

driver to stop. They needed to get

a hundred dollars and told him to keep

they got out of the

not get on the bus, but it served as a perfect cover. She led her children and Evelyn, sneaking around

were often

had not fled but had stayed right where

the pond, beneath the grass, mosquitoes

children, with their higher body heat and tender skin,

a whimper as she spoke, “Mommy, it’s so itchy.

got big bumps all over,”

and Atticus were also stomping their little feet

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

bitten by mosquitoes, and she didn’t want

no choice. She was terrified of being found by Lysander.

had given birth to his child in secret. If he caught them, not only

memory of the pain Lysander had inflicted on her

them, she didn’t dare think of