The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 1349

Thalassa had reached her breaking point. She felt suffocated by his domineering attitude and his iron-fisted control. She refused to listen to him any longer.

Her hands trembling with urgency, Thalassa fumbled with her seat belt, trying to push open the car door with all her might, but it wouldn’t budge-it was locked tight.

Turning, she glared at him, her breaths uneven with a mix of desperation and helplessness, “Lysander, I don’t want to marry you! Don’t you hear me? I don’t want to marry you! Let me out, or I’ll bite my tongue and end it all!”

With that, she stuck out her tongue, feigning a grim resolve to bite it off.

“What are you doing!” Lysander’s eyes narrowed as he slammed on the brakes, bringing the car to an abrupt halt. His eyes were filled with a mix of tension and severity.

“Unlock the door, I’m getting out!” Thalassa said, her voice quivering with threat.

Seeing the resolve in her eyes, the light in Lysander’s gaze seemed to shatter into fragments, leaving him looking desolate and wounded.

“Stay put. I’ll take you home.” He knew she would rather face death than be forced into marriage with him.

would only push her

of immense grief and vulnerability. Perhaps when her heart healed, she might come

it even. And that ridiculous ‘contract lover’ deal we talked about? Look, I’ve got nobody in my heart now, nothing could be

each other anymore?

like thorns, thrumming painfully

the dull irritation of the past, it was a deep, cutting

always been like this, not wanting to stay with

the door again.

back to him, her eyes filled

his heart with an

came in ragged pulls. “Stay put,” he insisted,

he restarted the car and

quickly steadied herself

from the one leading to the city hall back to her home instead. It was the greatest concession Lysander was