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.

ringing? Hold on, I'll come open the

and

a bit spooked earlier by Angelina and Georgia, instinctively

it

the door, Lydia saw Thalassa and Hertha standing there. She

Thalassa and Hertha entered, Thalassa

Not like it's the

in his heart

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

to call out louder, but then he remembered the disdainful

impatient tone.

his mouth to speak, then swallowed the words back down, a look of dejection and melancholy

could never be anything between them. With that thought, Alaric's briefly recovered energy faded, and he slumped back onto the bed, disheartened. "You've got it all wrong. Alaric genuinely almost kicked the bucket this time," Lydia explained to

wanted to check on him, Alaric quickly lay back down and closed

did, footsteps