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.

her lips trembling slightly, she said in a hurt tone, “Yes, I lost a real one five years ago,

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

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

away where she was three or four.” When he

at Thalassa’s clear and sparkling eyes, her petite face, and her

of familiarity the first time

skin, even her

he was with five

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 up

her out. As for the

was for the

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

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

release her right

were removed, and after some necessary paperwork, she

police station, it was Lysander who helped her

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