The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Thalassa didn't slow her stride as she marched into the yard, swiftly opened the car door, and glanced back at Joshua. "You better head back. Don't keep your family waiting," she said curtly.

With those words, she slid into the driver's seat and drove off.

But Joshua felt a sting in his heart from her words. Thalassa still didn't consider the Whitman family as her own.

He had once suggested that Thalassa take their surname, but she had refused. She had said that she preferred being listed under her aunt and uncle-in-law's name in the family records. They had no children of their own, and she wanted to be their sole heir.

So, Thalassa's last name remained Everhart. Even though she had acknowledged Joshua as her father, she had never truly accepted him as family.

over twenty years of absent fatherhood in just a few moments, but Thalassa's resistant attitude still left

in frustration. He reproachfully said to Matilda, "What were you thinking, bringing up the marriage

get this straight-it's Zephyr who has issues with Thalassa and doesn't want her marrying into the Sinclair family. That's why he suggested Lysander and Rosalind's engagement. Without Rosalind, another debutante would just swoop in to claim Mrs. Sinclair's title. I was merely fighting for Rosalind's chance to be with Lysander. How is that wrong? If the title of Mrs. Sinclair isn't going to our family, it will go to someone else. Do you really want to see Lysander marry

be with Lysander," Joshua declared with a cold snort, seeing it as his only

neglect our own flesh and blood, Rosalind, for that... that bastard? Lysander is a

FAVOURITE GAMES ON

Thalassa's mother for over two decades. Now she's gone, leaving behind her only daughter, who is also my child. Of course, I need to make up for my absence and repay her mother's life-saving

Thalassa. It's not

kindness towards Thalassa was driven by gratitude and guilt. But it didn't