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.

He had come out

Sinclair and the Whitman families had been friends for generations, and it would be a travesty to let an old friendship be spoiled over a mere

when he looked back at Joshua, his face wore a

“the world’s full of con artists these days.

introduction of Thalassa as his

didn’t believe for a second that Thalassa

of deception who had ensnared both Leopold and Lysander in her

ultimatum she was to have no contact

worming her way to Joshua now! She truly was

towards Thalassa were filled with hostility and

comments, Thalassa’s hands clenched slightly. She could tell he was insinuating she was

across a con artist recently. A woman claiming to be my daughter showed up with jade pearls. Luckily, I’m not so easily fooled by

Joshua