The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 1055

She wanted to leave him to live a life of freedom and spontaneity. Was that really so wrong?

She only teamed up with Susan to drug him because she had her back against the wall.

Susan had blackmailed her with a video of her mother, leaving her with no choice but to comply.

Her rush to leave the hotel was to seek out Atticus and erase the video from Bruce’s possession, to remove the leverage Bruce’s family held over her.

Only by erasing the threat could she find true liberation.

Why did it have to be so hard for her, simply wanting a life without constraints? It was as if she had triggered his wrath, and he had gone mad with tormenting her.

Thalassa’s eyes brimmed with tears, her jaw clenched in an effort to suppress the despair and pain welling up inside her.

At her most distressed, she could no longer bear it and whispered, “Lysander, my stomach… it hurts so badly…”

Her words were strained, voicing the physical agony she felt.

and eyes as unforgiving as ice. Upon hearing her, he spat out, “You’re lying to me

the Crest Summit hotel, when Lysander wanted to take her to the security claimed a stomach-ache to avoid it, which was a ploy

trying the

pain. Sweat beaded on her forehead and dripped onto the bed, seeping

through clenched teeth, gripping the bed

she was

the metallic scent

eyes found a streak of

His expression darkened.

wasn’t lying

from the floor and dressed swiftly, buttoning up with rapid precision.

found Thalassa’s clothes in the dresser and dressed her quickly. Then, he scooped her up in his arms and strode toward the exit with

breathing heavily, enduring the sharp pain in her abdomen. Through her blurred vision, she saw beads

that his strained, sweat-drenched

nervous about her?

couldn’t

in his eyes; how could he possibly be