Chapter 148

When Lysander spoke, Thalassa went from feeling innocent to all sorts of tense and jumpy.

If she couldn’t explain things clearly, she might be up the creek without a paddle.

In a nap, she blurted out, “I didn’t swipe this, my neighbor Greta said she found it and was planning to give it back to me. I lost the exact same emerald pendant five years ago, everyone in the neighborhood knew about it. When Greta said she found my missing emerald pendant, I rushed back from Starhaven. I even gave her $300 as gratitude, But I didn’t know this emerald pendant was a phony.”

Despite her jumbled words, Lysander caught the important bits.

His eyes grew colder and filled with suspicion, “You’re saying you lost a real emerald pendant?”

A nearby cop was all at sea. The emerald pendant was clearly real. He was stumped.

innocent tears, her lips trembling slightly, she said in a hurt

rate suddenly picked up, he pulled Thalassa close and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to

bore into her, not missing a single flicker of her expression, “Was the one you lost your

head, “No, it was mine. A man gave me that emerald pendant Celia passed away where she was three or four.” When he heard this, Lysander felt

stared at Thalassa’s clear and sparkling eyes, her petite face, and her cherry-like lips, everything felt

he felt a deep sense of familiarity

the feel of her skin, even

the woman he was with five years

seemed like there were stars twinkling in them, and a kind of inexplicable shock and deep emotion, which made her feel a bit panicky. She stammered, ‘Mr.

out. As for the truth about the emerald pendant theft, it’ll be at the

was for the

a bit torn, about to refuse, but David

but

we’ll release

some necessary paperwork,

she was brought to the police station, it was Lysander who helped her

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