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.

gravel and eyes as unforgiving as ice. Upon

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

was trying

her forehead and dripped onto the bed, seeping into

I’m really having a stomach-ache…” she insisted through clenched teeth, gripping the bed sheet tightly.

he was convinced she was playing

the metallic

found a

His expression darkened.

wasn’t lying this time.

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

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 of sweat forming on

fancied that his strained, sweat-drenched appearance

he nervous about her?

that couldn’t

in his eyes; how could he possibly be nervous about