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.

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

and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing

of

shook 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 felt like he’d been struck by lightning, just like that stormy, rain-soaked night

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

sense of familiarity the

the feel of her skin,

she was the woman he was with

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

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

for

a bit torn, about to refuse,

get a good look at what it was, but she saw the

we’ll release her

after some necessary paperwork, she followed Lysander out of the police

to the police station, it was Lysander who

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