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,

close and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her

icy gaze bore into her, not missing a single flicker of her expression, “Was the one you lost

head, “No, it was mine. A man gave me that emerald pendant Celia passed away where she was three or four.” When he heard this, Lysander felt like he’d been struck by lightning, just

her petite face, and her cherry-like lips, everything felt

of familiarity the first time

of her skin,

the woman he was with five years

of inexplicable shock and deep

her, his hand letting go of her chin, saying, “I’m bailing her out. As for the truth about the emerald pendant theft, it’ll be

for

a bit torn, about to refuse, but David showed

get a good look at what it was, but she saw the cop become very respectful after seeing

release her

removed, and after some necessary paperwork, she followed Lysander

she was brought to the police

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