The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Chapter 1406

Hertha’s round, doe–like eyes fixed on Georgia with a fiery glare, irritation ready to spill from her lips in a heated tirade.

But suddenly, Alaric extricated his arm from Georgia’s grasp, casting her an annoyed glance. “Georgia, cussing someone out as soon as you see them, is that what you’d call cultured? Don’t make me think you haven’t even finished elementary school!”

At Alaric’s words, the anger boiling inside Hertha simmered down to a mere half of its fury.

What was going on?

Was Alaric actually standing up for her?

Wasn’t Georgia his fiancée?

Three years prior, Alaric and Georgia’s engagement party had set the town of Starhaven abuzz, with every major media outlet clamoring to cover the event. The ceremony was both lavish and grand, and it lasted two days–much more extravagant than most engagement parties.

Hertha wanted nothing to do with news about Alaric, wishing to remain ignorant of his engagement to Georgia.

social media, news alerts–everywhere she turned, the splendor of Alaric and Georgia’s engagement was

left in Hertha for Alaric, it was thoroughly extinguished by the grandeur of that engagement

their engagement, Hertha didn’t know why Alaric and Georgia hadn’t

but she was crystal

there

with his own fiancée‘ but defending

Hertha by

harsh words she had prepared for Georgia were swallowed

into

rude to you. I was just sticking up for you, Alaric. How can you

blame me?”

Alaric retorted, his gaze at Georgia laced with disdain.

his mother had tried to set him up with Georgia, Alaric had never taken

ago, ending up in bed with Georgia was the result of his drunkenness–he had dreamed she was Hertha, only to wake up and find Georgia beside him.

a mistake that gnawed at