The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 1390

Thalassa felt the unwelcoming hint in Zephyr’s gaze, as piercing as a hawk’s, and her heart sank, her eyes casting downward.

She knew Zephyr had no affection for her, that his heart harbored a profound resentment towards her.

Her presence now would surely have him cursing her a thousand times over in his mind.

Yet, even at the risk of igniting Zephyr’s wrath, Thalassa had to come. She couldn’t abandon Lysander.

“Zephyr, let me introduce you,” Joshua began, oblivious to Zephyr’s darkening countenance. “This is my newly acknowledged daughter, Thalassa. In time, I plan to give her my family name, make her a Whitman.”

Joshua’s timely intervention eased Thalassa’s discomfort. She quickly glanced at him, finding a gaze filled with the warmth of old friendship towards Zephyr.

The genial expression seemed to plead for peace, to be too kind to shatter.

come out personally to greet Joshua.

and it would be

focus shifted from Thalassa, and when he looked back at Joshua, his face wore a polite smile

in a tone that was both casual and pointed, “the world’s full of con artists these days. They don’t

wasn’t the least bit surprised at Joshua’s introduction of Thalassa as his da Instead, he

didn’t believe for a second that Thalassa was

cunning, a master of deception who had ensnared both Leopold and Lysander in her

an ultimatum she was to have no contact with

here she was worming her way to Joshua

towards Thalassa were filled with hostility and revulsion.

was insinuating she was

con artist recently. A woman claiming to

looked at Joshua in