The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 950

Richard was about to speak, but Thalassa beat him to it. “Richard, you guys go on ahead. I can catch a cab back home,” she said. She could tell that Charlotte meant the world to Richard. Whenever he looked at Charlotte, his eyes would soften with affection.

When you like someone, it’s impossible to hide the fondness in your gaze.

Thalassa didn’t want to be the reason for any discord between Richard and Charlotte.

With that, she walked to the curb to wait for a ride.

Seeing Charlotte’s outright refusal to let him drive Thalassa home, even threatening to cut ties with him, and Thalassa’s insistence on not being chauffeured by him, Richard gave in. With a mix of exasperation and endearment, he said to Charlotte, “I can never win with you. When will you ever change that stubborn streak of yours?”

“If changed, would I still be Charlotte?” she retorted with a roll of her eyes.

Richard found himself at a loss for words. Yet, he pondered, if Charlotte were to lose that naive, adorably clueless part of her, would she still be the Charlotte he knew?

car. Charlotte glanced back at Thalassa, who was still waiting at the curb, then followed Richard, her heels clicking on the pavement. She had come with Richard’s car today, and the feeling of having someone by her side attentively

drove off

attention back to the stream of taxis, all showing their occupied lights. As Richard had mentioned,

Thalassa wasn’t discouraged. She continued to wait, confident that a ride would come eventually.

waist from behind. Startled, she struggled, but the person’s other hand pressed a cloth over

cloth carried a strange fragrance that quickly invaded her nostrils and filled her lungs.

strong, unmistakably

help, but her mouth was

her might, it only took a few seconds for her body to weaken, her head to grow heavy,

sharpened, she recalled the events before she passed out, sending a wave of shock and fear through her. She snapped open her eyes to

and then she