Chapter 975

Thalassa snapped back to reality, hurrying to keep up.

After descending from the rooftop, she entered Lysander’s office. As soon as she walked in, the glass door swung shut behind her and locked with an ominous click.

Her body tensed, a primal sense of danger coursing through her veins.

Without warning, Lysander’s hand snaked around her slender waist, pulling her forcefully against his muscular torso. Her forehead collided with his chest, sending her heart into a frenetic gallop, like a startled fawn crashing into a cloud-confused and alarmed.

“Lysander, what are you doing?” she demanded, her voice shaky.

“You,” he responded with a single word, his low, icy voice sending shivers down her spine.

Thalassa’s eyes widened in panic. In a brief struggle, she realized that his grip was unyielding-she was trapped, her body involuntarily brushing against his.

Suddenly, she felt a telling change in him.

stilled immediately, daring not to squirm anymore.

struggle seemed only to heighten the peril.

met his eyes-deep and fathomless as the night sky,

quivered at the

any man touch you?” Lysander’s voice

around him felt oppressively heavy, enough to make one’s teeth chatter in

her head frantically, “No one… no one

to check,” he declared, his tone

asked, her voice barely above a

chin up, forcing

heart raced as she thought about what his “checking” might entail. She’d just escaped a harrowing ordeal,

really be so callous as to demand such a thing from her

Can’t you just trust me? I was kidnapped today, and if it hadn’t been for Callum’s timely arrival, I… might’ve been ruined. I truly don’t want to do…

the sight of Callum holding her in

do anything.”

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