The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Yesterday, they spent the whole afternoon at the supermarket.

"How about you cook, and I catch some more Z's?" Alaric flashed his charming eyes at Hertha, his gaze a mix of flirtation and laziness, as if he was casting a spell or playfully whining. Just one look from him turned Hertha's insides to mush.

Good Lord, Alaric was too good at this flirtation game. Using his good looks to tempt her first thing in the morning.

Hertha was head over heels, about to agree, when her inner voice of reason awakened, stopping her love-struck brain dead in its tracks.

No way, she couldn't just cave every time Alaric turned on his charm; otherwise, she'd end up waiting on him hand and foot in the future. Wasn't raising two kids enough without adding a grown-up child to the mix? She absolutely couldn't let him get away with it.

Hertha shook off her dazed expression and firmly told Alaric, "You've got to learn. There are tons of cooking tutorials online; just look one up and give it a try."

"But if I mess it up, that's just a waste of time, right? How about I just go out and grab some breakfast instead?" Alaric was up now, but he still wasn't keen on cooking.

in the fridge? They'll go bad. You're a father of

don't they?" Alaric scratched his

grandma to spend her whole life here looking after our kids? Don't

up

enough without expecting her to keep looking after two kids." Hertha

aren't getting any younger, do they really need

for themselves? Their desire for love and romance is probably stronger than ours." As she spoke, Hertha got out of bed and started making

was finally persuaded, "Alright,

determined, thinking of the future meals he'd prepare for the kids. Imagining the kids eating his cooking, looking all cute and cuddly, suddenly filled him with a sense of

he was going