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.

were back, there would surely be signs

tidy as when she had left,

more she looked around, the

heart, which had finally calmed down, started

just beginning to charge, she couldn’t wait. She pressed

turned on the

she dialed

rang for a long time, unanswered.

calmly waiting at first, but later Thalassa’s heart started racing as the ringing continued.

while before finally dying down. Still,

anxious, she tried again. Again, no

to sit still, she called Hertha.

rings, the call

excitement. “Thalassa, you finally showed up. I thought you disappeared off the face of the earth.”

her worry

she had no time for small talk. She was worried about the

where my mother