The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Chapter 475

The phone line crackled to life as she held her breath, “Hello?”

“Where are you?” Lysander’s voice was icy, low and commanding.

Thalassa glanced nervously at Leopold. She was holding her breath as she carefully replied, “At home.”

“I’m on my way.” Lysander’s rich baritone voice declared.

Before she could respond, he had ended the call.

Thalassa’s heart pounded with anxiety. A taxi happened to pass by, and she hastily flagged it down. Without an extra word with Leopold, she instructed the driver to

move.

She had to beat Lysander to her home, and to wear the necklace before he arrived:

Otherwise, Lysander would know she had lied.

Leopold watched the taxi retreat into the distance; his fists clenched and his eyes were filled with sorrow and longing.

knew it was Lysander who had called

the fact that

care so much

do to be with you?

with worry and impatience. Finally, the taxi pulled up to her

from the vehicle and dashed towards the

reaching the door, she found it locked. She sighed with relief, fumbled for her keys, and unlocked it.

the door opened, a chilling, oppressive sensation swept over

her heart

a single light was on.

her. Lysander didn’t have her keys,

the apartment and

illuminated the room, and a dark, imposing figure

stopped on seeing

his head, his hawk-like eyes fixing on her.

the danger bore in those eyes.

so intense that Thalassa felt a heaviness pressing on her chest, a

platinum necklace with her hands; the pendant was hanging below his

heart pounded even faster on seeing

to question her, she began explaining, “I had taken off my backpack and the necklace when I got home; and I left them by the entrance. Then I suddenly wanted some coffee, so I took my phone and went out, forgetting to wear