The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

At that moment, without any leverage and knowing she couldn't get the two million, her gaze turned hollow, and she seemed like a shadow of her former self, wandering aimlessly. She looked at Thalassa and Lysander standing at the doorway with lifeless eyes, "Are you satisfied now?"

"What is there to be satisfied about?" Lysander's voice was cold as ice. "Letting a kidnapper use hostages to extort money for a second time is my greatest failure!"

Susan's pupils dilated, sensing danger, "What do you mean?"

Before her confusion could clear, two police officers appeared at the door, "We've received a tip-off that the fugitive Susan is here."

At this, Thalassa quickly nudged Lysander aside, making way for the officers, declaring, "She's Susan."

The officers moved in swiftly, apprehending Susan before she even had a chance to flee.

The cold handcuffs clasped around Susan's wrists, her expression a mix of panic and fear, "You've got the wrong person, I'm not a fugitive!"

got the right person!" the officer

in a desperate, hysterical plea, "Joshua, save me, I don't want to go to jail, find a way to save me, I'm the mother of your child!" Her voice was loud enough to echo

into Joshua's embrace, his little body

Joshua wrapped his arms tighter around him, cocooning the child in his thick

you once was my biggest mistake. You don't deserve

she claimed to have given birth to his son, the possibility

an indiscretion between them. A child resulting from their encounter wasn't entirely unexpected. Initially, Joshua thought a two-million-dollar settlement would sever all ties with Susan for good. Yet, here was a child linking them

his child, Joshua couldn't just

the pressure of fatherhood, Joshua helped Susan out of detention and even got her back on the

a tiger back into the wild. Susan hadn't changed; she framed