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.

she immediately told the driver to stop. They

Thalassa handed him a hundred dollars and told him to keep

the taxi, a bus pulled up.

it served as a perfect cover. She led her children and Evelyn, sneaking around the barrier and into the ditch beneath the highway.

most dangerous places were often the

the taxi, they had not fled but had stayed

beneath the grass, mosquitoes were

with their higher body heat and tender skin,

a whimper as she spoke,

I’m itchy too. I’ve got big bumps all

Atticus were also stomping their little feet to

skin to keep the mosquitoes away and to soothe their itchiness. She was both sympathetic and helpless, “Just

didn’t want her children to be bitten by mosquitoes, and she didn’t want to be on

had no choice. She was

If he caught them, not only would the children

had inflicted on her that morning was

didn’t

trying to catch us?” Dorian asked,

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