The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 1416

Alaric’s ragged breath fanned across Hertha’s face, his long lashes brushing her cheek, sending shivers down her spine like a current of electricity. His alluring face was inches away, his lips pressed fervently against hers.

It was the tremble, the heart–racing, the thrill she had dreamed of countless times, where she and Alaric were locked in a passionate embrace, just like this.

Hertha felt as if her toes were curling.

For three years, she had daydreamed and nightdreamed about this man.

Hertha was no innocent like Thalassa. When she missed a man, she entertained vivid dreams of rolling in the hay with him, kissing him endlessly, sleeping with him through countless imagined encounters.

presence enveloping her, his kiss intense with an

spite and anger.

watery eyes filled with indignation as she panted, “Alaric, I am not a pawn for you to use in your games with your

tool, just as Thalassa had been treated by Lysander, especially being used by Alaric as a strategy to get under

the same desire that had roared within him three years ago, the night they had crossed the point of no return, his body clamoring

pawn.” Alaric’s

for three long years. He had wanted to find Hertha, to explain to her that

him. He had chased after her, only

showed their softest side to the man they truly cherished. Seeing Hertha’s affection for

Hertha had vanished from his life, no longer appearing