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 tone, “Yes, I lost

heart rate suddenly picked up, he pulled Thalassa close and lifted her chin with his

missing a single flicker of her expression,

three or four.” When he heard this, Lysander felt

petite face, and

he felt a deep sense of

feel of her skin, even

was the woman he was with five

a kind of inexplicable shock and deep emotion,

kept his gaze on her, his hand letting go of her chin, saying, “I’m bailing her out. As for the truth

was for the

to refuse, but David showed him some kind

good look at what it was, but she

we’ll release her right

necessary paperwork, she followed Lysander out of the

to the police station,

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