The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Talking, she continued, "I saw Angelina yesterday, holding a little boy as she went into the orphanage director's office. If I'm not mistaken, that kid must be Georgia's."

"What? What did you say?" Hertha was so shocked she was speechless, her hands involuntarily clutching Thalassa's arm.

Seeing Hertha's agitated state, Thalassa tried to soothe her, "Hey, take a deep breath. Don't jump to conclusions. I told you this because something seems off. We should look into it."

"What's off?" Hertha's eyes widened, her expression starting to spiral out of control. "Could it be that Georgia's child was borrowed from the orphanage, and they're pretending he's Alaric's? But Alaric took a paternity test with that child. Why would Alaric keep this from me? What's he trying to hide?"

Hertha was clearly panicking.

Thalassa had barely scratched the surface, and Hertha was already losing it, bombarding her with questions.

Thalassa quickly tried to stop her from spiraling.

"Hertha, calm down. We don't know the whole truth yet. Let's head to the orphanage first and see what's up. Once we have all the facts, we can figure out what's going on."

"When do we go?" Hertha looked up, clear panic in her eyes.

"How about after work? We've still got jobs to do, right?" Thalassa said, trying to calm her down.

Hertha nodded.

the day, though Hertha was physically at work, her mind was elsewhere, completely

when work was over, Hertha grabbed Thalassa,

in the passenger seat, heading towards

got a call from

you up,"

and told him, "I'm not at the

on speaker!" Hertha, knowing it

Thalassa switched to speakerphone.

without seeing him, Lysander's deep, cool voice made Hertha's heart

nervously said,

I've

f n her safe and

of hours, don't worry,

me when you're done," Lysander's low, magnetic voice came through

over Hertha, straight

closer eye on you, almost

embarrassed, "Focus on driving, no

Thalassa too well, seeing right