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.

was Lysander who had called her.

hide the fact that she was

so much about Lysander’s feelings?

do to be

impatience. Finally, the taxi pulled up to

and

locked. She sighed with relief,

opened, a chilling, oppressive sensation swept over her.

félt her heart stop beating.

room was dark; not a single light was

her. Lysander didn’t have her keys, so how could he

apartment and flicked on the

imposing figure on the

heart stopped on seeing that

turned his head, his hawk-like eyes fixing

feel the heaviness and the danger bore in those eyes.

Thalassa felt a heaviness pressing on her chest, a wave of panic washing over

with her hands; the pendant was hanging below his

pounded even faster on seeing such

him 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 the necklace. When I heard you were