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.

innocent tears, her lips trembling slightly, she said in a hurt tone, “Yes, I lost a

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

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

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, passionate, and

clear and sparkling eyes, her petite face, and her cherry-like lips, everything

of familiarity the first

feel of her skin, even

was the woman he

of inexplicable shock and deep emotion, which made her feel a bit panicky. She

for the truth about the emerald pendant theft, it’ll be

for

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

was, but she saw the cop

we’ll release

some necessary paperwork,

times she was brought to the police station, it

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