The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Chapter 1416

Alaric’s ragged breath fanned across Hertha’s face, his long lashes brushing her cheek, sending shivers down her spine like a current of electricity. His alluring face was inches away, his lips pressed fervently against hers.

It was the tremble, the heart–racing, the thrill she had dreamed of countless times, where she and Alaric were locked in a passionate embrace, just like this.

Hertha felt as if her toes were curling.

For three years, she had daydreamed and nightdreamed about this man.

Hertha was no innocent like Thalassa. When she missed a man, she entertained vivid dreams of rolling in the hay with him, kissing him endlessly, sleeping with him through countless imagined encounters.

Now, her dreams were coming to life. She could feel Alaric’s potent masculine presence enveloping her, his kiss intense with an undercurrent of spite and anger.

and anger.

reality abruptly. She placed her hands on Alaric’s face and pushed him away, her wide, watery eyes filled with indignation as she panted, “Alaric, I am

a tool, just as Thalassa had been treated by Lysander, especially being

same desire that had roared within him three years ago, the night

never saw you as a pawn.” Alaric’s voice

wanted to find Hertha, to explain to

had chased after her, only to see her with Spencer, looking so happy and

softest side to the man they truly cherished. Seeing Hertha’s affection

Hertha had vanished from his life, no longer appearing before him and

mother had pushed him into an engagement with Georgia, insisting that he was honor–bound to make it right since he had

mistake, he might as well live