The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Thalassa didn't slow her stride as she marched into the yard, swiftly opened the car door, and glanced back at Joshua. "You better head back. Don't keep your family waiting," she said curtly.

With those words, she slid into the driver's seat and drove off.

But Joshua felt a sting in his heart from her words. Thalassa still didn't consider the Whitman family as her own.

He had once suggested that Thalassa take their surname, but she had refused. She had said that she preferred being listed under her aunt and uncle-in-law's name in the family records. They had no children of their own, and she wanted to be their sole heir.

So, Thalassa's last name remained Everhart. Even though she had acknowledged Joshua as her father, she had never truly accepted him as family.

Joshua knew that he could never make up for over twenty years of absent fatherhood in just a few moments, but Thalassa's resistant attitude still left him feeling defeated.

reproachfully said to Matilda, "What were you thinking, bringing up the marriage agreement between Lysander and Rosalind? A perfectly good family

suggested Lysander and Rosalind's engagement. Without Rosalind, another debutante would just swoop in to claim Mrs. Sinclair's title. I was merely fighting for Rosalind's chance to be with Lysander. How is that wrong? If the title of Mrs. Sinclair isn't going to our family, it will go to someone else. Do you really want to see Lysander marry another woman

fight for Thalassa's chance to be with Lysander," Joshua declared with a cold snort, seeing it as his only chance to make

up, fuming, "Joshua, you would neglect our own flesh and blood, Rosalind, for that... that bastard? Lysander is a catch that many women are after,

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harmony, Joshua softened his tone, "Don't call her that. I've told you before, if it weren't for Thalassa's mother saving me from those thugs twenty years ago, I'd be dead. I've searched for Thalassa's mother for over two decades. Now she's gone, leaving behind her only daughter, who is also my child. Of course, I need to make up for my absence and repay

who doesn't want Thalassa. It's not

was driven by gratitude and guilt. But it didn't soothe the ache