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.

welling up with innocent tears, her lips trembling slightly, she said in a hurt tone, “Yes,

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

missing a single flicker of her expression, “Was the one you lost

her 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

and sparkling eyes, her petite face,

felt a deep sense of familiarity the first time he saw

skin,

she was the woman he was with five

were stars twinkling in them, and a kind of inexplicable shock and deep emotion, which made her feel a bit panicky. She stammered, ‘Mr. Sinclair, what’s up

kept his gaze on her, his hand letting go of her chin, saying, “I’m bailing her out. As for the truth about the emerald pendant theft, it’ll be

for

was a bit torn, about to refuse, but David showed

look at what it was, but she saw the cop become

release

handcuffs were removed, and after some necessary paperwork, she followed Lysander out of

the police station, it was Lysander who helped

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