The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 1338

Breathing ragged and heart racing, Thalassa stared at Lysander, her words deliberate and tense, “I’m not one for daydreams, and I’d appreciate it if Mr. Sinclair didn’t try to force them on me!”

Her statement, though resolute, carried an undertone of self-deprecation, echoing like a speck of dust in its insignificance.

Once upon a time, she had indeed fantasized about marrying Lysander, and she had asked him more than once if he would ever take her as his wife. What was his response?

He told her not to daydream!

Now she was wide awake and clear-minded, and her only desire was to stay far away from Lysander.

Yet there he was, showing up in the dead of night, proposing to her!

Shock gave way to a bitter, mocking desolation in Thalassa.

Lysander caught the rejection in her voice, along with the desolate tone of a heart that had been wounded and scarred.

as though gripped by an invisible hand, the pain tightening its hold, making even his breaths heavy

in the morning,” Lysander’s deep, smooth

the moonlight casting a ghostly glow on his retreating silhouette. She didn’t want

reminiscent of a winter’s night when leaves are coated with

sent an involuntary chill through her heart, an urge

and

the door shutting unleashed the tears Thalassa had been holding back. She Tay back down, her heart drowning in a wave of sour

open to the

full awareness. She got out of bed and went to

her. Had Lysander taken the kids

then saw four small figures in the vegetable patch, clustered around Astrid.

green beans. Let’s pick extra for her,” Atticus’ little hands were full of green beans, yet his eyes

more so I can cook them for your mom later,” Astrid

of the