The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Chapter 422

Having finished, Thalassa began to rise, only to be abruptly stopped by Leopold, who grasped her hand fiercely.

His palm was slightly damp and feverishly warm.

Startled, Thalassa reflexively yanked her hand back, her voice a passionate outcry, “Leopold, I’ve made things clear. If you are under the impression that I saved you when I stopped the car that day, let me correct you now. It wasn’t about you. I did it because Isabella called for help. I would do the same for any stranger in danger, not just because it was you!”

Thalassa was desperate to make him understand. Her eyes, brimming with earnestness, bore into his.

She wanted him to let go.

Lysander had already made it clear.

Since that fateful night five years ago, things between them were no longer possible.

Leopold had been with Isabella, and she herself had lost her purity to Lysander.

and Leopold were destined to be two parallel lines, never meant

could move

in love with another woman, have a woman who would genuinely love

to dwell on their past, it would only hurt

was firm and resolute, filled with frustration and a

scared, scared that her past might show through, giving Leopold false hope.

Thalassa’s unyielding words, Leopold felt a sharp pain in

risked her own life to stop his car because she still cared for him,

that as long as Thalassa had feelings for him and loved him, he could overcome any

was that Thalassa truly had no

him was his

because it was him, was like a punch to his gut, draining him of all

his hand on the table, his pain evident. Under the hotel’s crystal chandelier, the diamonds around Thalassa’s

focused on her necklace,

“Who gave you

at the pendant. The diamonds surrounding