The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Chapter 382

Compared to the usual bustling atmosphere, filled with the comforting scent of freshly baked cookies and the excited chatter of children rushing to greet her, the house now seemed cold and eerily quiet.

Thalassa felt her heart sink, a subconscious worry and fear setting in.

Hadn’t Evelyn brought the children back home?

Why wasn’t anyone around?

After a moment of panic, she remembered. Elowen was on television, competing in the semi-finals of the gourmet competition.

Evelyn must still be out with the children, she reasoned.

A bit calmer, Thalassa quickly took her discharged cell phone to her room to charge.

Once the phone was plugged in, Thalassa noticed another oddity: The blankets in the room were neatly folded, just as she had left them. They were undisturbed.

Even the household items remained the same.

was off. If the children were back, there would

house was still as tidy as when she had left, with no trace of the children.

more she looked around, the more unsettling it

finally calmed down,

phone only just beginning to charge, she

turned on

the charging, she dialed Evelyn’s number.

a

as the ringing continued. She clenched the bedsheet tightly in

ringing continued for a while before finally dying

she tried again. Again, no

to sit still, she called Hertha.

rings, the call

you finally showed

her worry and

talk. She was worried about the

you know where my mother took the