The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Lydia, seeing Alaric shake his head, decided not to get up to answer the door.

The doorbell rang for a while and then stopped.

Just as Lydia was about to breathe a sigh of relief, her cell phone buzzed in her pocket.

Checking the caller ID, she saw it was Thalassa calling and quickly answered.

"Lydia, did you swing by Alaric's place to check up on him?" Thalassa's concerned voice came through the phone.

"Yeah, I did. Gave him a shot," Lydia replied.

"Have you left yet?" Thalassa inquired.

"No, still here," Lydia said.

"We're at his doorstep, rang the bell but got no answer," Thalassa explained.

you ringing? Hold on, I'll come open the

got up and headed for the

spooked earlier by Angelina and Georgia, instinctively fearing it might

it

Thalassa and Hertha standing there. She was briefly surprised but quickly

entered, Thalassa asked, "How's Alaric

a nasty flu. Not like it's the end

voice, felt a jolt in his heart and

voice was hoarse, barely a whisper, too soft for those in the

the disdainful look

impatient tone.

opened his mouth to speak, then swallowed the words back down, a look of

the point in calling out to her? It would only deepen her disdain for him. She had made it clear; she found him repulsive, believing there could never be anything between them. With that thought, Alaric's briefly recovered energy faded, and he

check on him, Alaric quickly lay back down and closed his eyes, pretending to be

footsteps approached closer to