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.

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

up, he pulled Thalassa close and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to look directly at him, into

into her, not missing a single flicker of her

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

petite face,

wonder he felt a deep sense of familiarity

her skin, even her bite felt exactly

she was the woman he was

stared into his 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. She stammered, ‘Mr. Sinclair, what’s

chin, saying, “I’m bailing her out. As for

for the

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

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

we’ll release her right

after some necessary paperwork, she followed Lysander

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

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