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.

disappear into the distance, Joshua returned to the living room, his brow furrowed in frustration. He reproachfully said to Matilda, "What were you thinking, bringing up the

into the Sinclair family. That's why he 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

Joshua declared with a cold snort,

and blood, Rosalind, for that... that bastard? Lysander

FAVOURITE GAMES ON

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

doesn't want Thalassa. It's not me! I'm just trying

by gratitude and guilt. But