The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 1334

Lysander’s voice was hoarse, low, “No need.”

Thalassa didn’t want him at Evelyn’s funeral. His presence would only push her further away.

Besides, it was the townsfolk attending Evelyn’s funeral now. In such moments of raw emotion, people cried openly and shared their grief without pretense.

If he showed up, the air would stiffen, and the natural flow of mourning would be disrupted by his presence.

His arrival would turn a heartfelt goodbye into a stifled affair, where the focus might shift to reverence and status-seeking towards him.

Lysander’s decline of David’s suggestion hung in the air as they watched the funeral from a distance silently.

His eyes lingered on Thalassa, who stood by the graveside. Her face, framed by the traditional white mourning attire of the West, appeared even more fragile and paler.

her recovery from miscarriage,

to wrap her in his arms and give her strength, and

only cause her more

to watch from afar.

felt when she wasn’t allowed to attend Leopold’s funeral-watching from a distance when the man she loved

then, she must have been in agony and despair.

like he was now.

had never understood why, if she was barred from attending, she would still hide and watch from the sidelines. Now,

all her

was indeed

mourners gradually made their

and he instructed David, “Let’s leave.”