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.

make up for over twenty years of absent fatherhood in

Thalassa's car disappear into the distance, Joshua returned to the living room, his brow furrowed in frustration. He reproachfully said to Matilda, "What were you thinking, bringing up

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 another woman and have no ties to us?" Matilda retorted, her

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

that bastard? Lysander is a catch that many women are after, and you are giving him to that bastard just

FAVOURITE GAMES ON

softened his tone, "Don't call her that. I've told you before, if it weren't for Thalassa's mother saving me from those thugs twenty years ago, I'd be dead. I've searched for 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

Thalassa. It's not me! I'm just trying to

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