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

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

from Thalassa, and when he looked back at Joshua,

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

introduction of Thalassa as his

second that Thalassa

a master of deception who had ensnared both Leopold and Lysander in her web.

ultimatum she was to have no contact

worming her way to Joshua now!

Thalassa were filled with hostility and revulsion.

clenched slightly. She could tell he was insinuating she

did come 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

looked at Joshua