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.

slightly, she said in a hurt tone, “Yes, I lost a real

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

icy gaze bore into her, not missing a single flicker of her expression, “Was the one

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. He was thrilled, excited,

her petite face, and her cherry-like lips, everything felt

deep sense of familiarity the first

her skin, even her bite felt exactly

he was

his deep eyes, it seemed like there were stars twinkling in them, and a kind of inexplicable shock and deep emotion, which

his hand letting go of her chin, saying, “I’m bailing her out. As for the truth about the emerald pendant

for the

torn, about to refuse, but David

was, but she saw the

release her right

paperwork, she followed Lysander out of the

police station,

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