The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Lydia, seeing Alaric shake his head, decided not to get up to answer the door.

The doorbell rang for a while and then stopped.

Just as Lydia was about to breathe a sigh of relief, her cell phone buzzed in her pocket.

Checking the caller ID, she saw it was Thalassa calling and quickly answered.

"Lydia, did you swing by Alaric's place to check up on him?" Thalassa's concerned voice came through the phone.

"Yeah, I did. Gave him a shot," Lydia replied.

"Have you left yet?" Thalassa inquired.

"No, still here," Lydia said.

"We're at his doorstep, rang the bell but got no answer," Thalassa explained.

was you ringing? Hold on, I'll come open the

up and headed for the

earlier by Angelina and Georgia, instinctively

it was

and Hertha standing there. She was briefly surprised but quickly stepped aside, saying,

and Hertha entered,

nasty flu. Not like

jolt in his heart and excitedly

barely a whisper, too soft

out louder, but then he remembered the disdainful look Hertha had given him when they fast parted, along with

back down, a look of

be anything between them. With that thought, Alaric's briefly recovered energy faded, and

on him, Alaric quickly lay back down and closed

he did, footsteps