The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Chapter 514

The night was as dark as ink. Underneath the elevated highway, beside a pond, insects chirped, and frogs croaked. The scent of fresh grass lingered in the air, blending with the night’s mist, touching their skin with a cold chill.

That chill seemed to seep into their hearts, stirring up fear.

Thalassa, with her four children and Evelyn, hid in a ditch beneath the highway.

In front of them, the pond shimmered in the moonlight, and its depth was concealed by the darkness, a sight that brought fear to their hearts.

Yes, fear.

She had noticed a line of black limousines in the traffic behind them, and it had filled her with dread.

At that moment, she decided to get out of the taxi.

Thankfully, it was nighttime. She and Evelyn managed to slip unnoticed from the taxi to the one up front.

Once the taxi had driven through the traffic lights, she realized that the driver would surely inform Lysander they had boarded his taxi.

If Lysander caught up with them, there would have been no escape.

to stop. They needed

handed him a hundred dollars and told him to keep

the taxi, a bus pulled

cover. She led her children and Evelyn, sneaking

places were often the safest.

would never think that after leaving the taxi, they had not fled but had stayed right where they

the pond, beneath the grass, mosquitoes were

body heat

she

big bumps all

also stomping their little feet to shoo the mosquitoes

the mosquitoes away and to soothe their itchiness. She was both sympathetic and helpless, “Just ten more minutes and we’ll leave, darlings. Can we hold on

and she didn’t want to be on the

she had no choice. She was terrified of being

birth to his child in secret. If he caught them, not only would the children

inflicted on her

Lysander caught them, she didn’t dare think of the consequences.

us?” Dorian asked, his young voice carrying a