The CEO's Amazing Ex-Wife Is Back! by H. Dally

Chapter 185

Chapter 185

"Kris..." Thalassa swallowed, trying to keep her expression neutral.

"Were you speaking to someone?" he asked again.

"Uh... no... I was just talking to myself," Thalassa quickly said, praying he hadn't heard what she had been saying.

Thankfully, he didn't press further. His eyes lit up as they scanned her from head to toe.

"You look gorgeous," he whispered.

His closeness was unsettling Thalassa. She needed him away so she could do what she'd come to do without any second thoughts.

"Kris, we've already talked about this, haven't we?"

Kris stared at her, his eyes squinting in confusion. "You said you didn't want people to see that we're together again, but we're not doing anything, Thalassa. We're just talking. Surely, nobody will suspect we're a couple just because of that?"

"You'd be surprised how some people think. I don't want to take that risk, Kris. Please understand." She saw the hurt flash across his face before she turned and walked off, forcing herself to return to the other guests.

following her with their eyes, but after a while, Linda and Cynthia had focused on their guests, while Susan was nowhere in sight. The biggest problem was Kris,

hugged him excitedly. Kris looked alarmed for a second, glancing at her to see her reaction, but Thalassa pretended to have seen nothing, continuing her conversation with a woman who wouldn't stop rambling on about her

think about it, Meghan." Thalassa smiled

Kris and his family now distracted, she knew

"Luisa, now," she whispered.

hall was plunged into darkness as the lights turned off. The guests murmured among themselves. There was just enough light

remembered the layout well, easily finding her way to the stairs and quietly ascending. Once she reached the top, she took the left corridor towards Linda's room. She found it without difficulty and breathed a sigh of relief when the

there?" Luisa asked through

"Yes."

find the evidence here?" Luisa questioned skeptically through the earbud.

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when

offered to clean Linda's room after the maid scheduled for

saw Linda standing by the wall of her bedroom, closing a hidden safe embedded in it. After

accusing her of spying on

the room and to tell no one about what she'd seen because she would blame Thalassa if her

then, Thalassa didn't think much of the safe, truly believing there was only money in the safe. But now she was more than sure it contained the

conceal the safe in the wall, even