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.

frantically, her eyes welling up with innocent tears, her lips trembling slightly, she said in

her chin with his finger, forcing her to look

into her, not missing a single flicker of her expression, “Was

man gave me that emerald pendant Celia passed away where she was three or four.” When he heard

face, and her cherry-like lips, everything felt so familiar, so

sense of familiarity

scent, the feel of her skin, even

the woman he

kind of inexplicable shock and deep emotion, which made her feel a bit panicky. She stammered, ‘Mr. Sinclair,

of her chin, saying, “I’m bailing her out. As for the truth about the emerald pendant theft,

for

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

didn’t get a good look at what it was, but she saw the

release her right

and after some necessary paperwork, she followed Lysander out

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

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