The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Treating him like he was just some random guy, huh?

Makes sense, though. Alaric's reputation precedes him - a notorious playboy, his exploits are the talk of the town. Which self-respecting woman wouldn't keep her distance?

Especially given their... complicated history. She was right to worry he might lump her in with the kind of women he could easily flirt with.

But Alaric's earnest apology caught her off guard.

Seeing him looking so guilty, so sincere in his apology, the anger that had filled her seemed to deflate. Suddenly, she felt like maybe she'd been making a mountain out of a molehill. She let out a sigh, softening her tone, "You should leave; I need to rest." S~ᴇaʀᴄh the (F)indNƟvᴇl.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"I was trying to explain about me and Georgia..." Alaric started, eager to clarify that marriage was off the table for him and Georgia, that even as an average Joe, he wouldn't tie the knot with her. But she cut him off, "Didn't you just say you wouldn't bother me? Were you lying?"

She didn't want to hear anything about him and Georgia.

brought back memories of that night three years ago, of them sharing a bed, of

like a thorn in her heart, painful at

quickly trying

downward glance of his long lashes, Alaric said, "Get some rest. I'll head

the street, making it easy for him to come over

just go," she urged him

word, Alaric

door closed behind him, her tense body

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genuinely feared Alaric had figured out she

that he is, didn't go there. Instead, he thought her love for cartoon motifs at her age meant she was

against the door from the inside, she took a deep

feeling, despite the lack of admission, that

else would she care so much about what he