The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 1358

Susan stepped away from the cold, marble gravestones, her heart heavy with loss. Yet as she dialed Callum’s number, a sly smile played at the corners of her lips, her grief momentarily displaced by a cunning ploy.

“Mr. Gordon, how have you been holding up?” she cooed into the phone, her voice dripping with feigned concern.

“Cut to the chase,” came Callum’s icy reply.

Their relationship was strictly business. There was no warmth there. If Susan was calling, she wanted something. Empty pleasantries were useless to him, and he had no desire to hear them.

Susan didn’t bother with any more niceties. She laughed and said pointedly, “We had an agreement, didn’t we? To drive a wedge between Lysander and Thalassa. That goal has been achieved. Do you have any idea what I had to sacrifice to make that happen?”

“I’m all ears,” Callum responded, his tone as flat as a pancake.

clenched until her knuckles turned white. She fought to hold back the rage and sorrow as she said, “My parents are dead. It’s because I showed Lysander and Thalassa those incriminating files my dad had hoarded. Lysander flipped and had my dad thrown in jail. Then

reaching your goal,” Callum said with a hollow

Her agony was nothing b passing

her heartache and loss. Even though she had paid dearly, to him, it was all just part

composure and said calmly, “Even though Lysander and Thalassa have split, I’m still no closer

problem, not mine,” Callum said, about to disconnect the call.

tell her about our little scheme to ruin her relationship with Lysander. Considering how stubborn

what had transpired between them there, but Thalassa’s coldness to Lysander upon her return was telling enough. Something unpleasant must have

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