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.

her lips trembling slightly, she said in a hurt tone, “Yes, I lost a real one five years ago, I never

her chin with his finger, forcing her to look directly at him, into

into her, not missing a single flicker of her expression, “Was the one you lost your cousin Celia’s

was mine. A man gave me that emerald pendant Celia passed away where she was three or four.” When he heard this, Lysander felt like he’d been struck by lightning, just like that stormy, rain-soaked night five years ago.

petite face, and

felt a deep sense of

of her skin, even her

she was the woman he was with five

inexplicable shock and deep emotion, which made her

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

was for

to refuse,

didn’t get a good look at what it was, but she saw

release

were removed, and after some necessary paperwork,

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

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