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.

hoarse as gravel and eyes as unforgiving as ice. Upon hearing her,

avoid it, which was a ploy

trying the

and dripped

insisted through clenched teeth, gripping

her; he was convinced she was playing games,

caught the metallic scent of

a streak of

His expression darkened.

lying this time.

picked up the clothes from the floor and dressed swiftly, buttoning up with

in the dresser and dressed her quickly. Then, he scooped her up in his arms and strode

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

and she fancied that his strained, sweat-drenched appearance was due

nervous about

couldn’t be.

eyes; how could he possibly