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.

heart clenched as though gripped by an invisible hand, the

morning,” Lysander’s deep, smooth

on his retreating silhouette. She didn’t want to see him leave, but his overpowering presence

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

sight that sent an involuntary chill through her heart, an

out the door and closed it

holding back. She Tay back down, her

to the morning sun

awareness. She got out of bed and went to

crisis hit her. Had Lysander taken the

saw four small figures in the vegetable

Atticus’ little hands were full of green beans, yet his eyes

pick more so I can cook them for your mom later,” Astrid said fondly, patting Atticus’

still swollen from last night’s crying, the sight of