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

Thalassa close and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to

of her expression, “Was the one you lost your cousin Celia’s emerald

gave me that emerald pendant Celia passed away where she was three or four.” When he heard this, Lysander felt like he’d

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

sense of familiarity the first

skin, even her bite felt

he was with five

stars twinkling in them, and a kind of inexplicable shock and

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 police station by this afternoon

for the

about to refuse, but David showed

what it was, but she saw the

release

removed, and after some necessary paperwork, she followed Lysander out of the

to the police station, it was

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