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.

focused on their guests, while Susan was nowhere in sight. The biggest problem was Kris, who wouldn't stop looking at her. But suddenly, one of

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

about it, Meghan." Thalassa smiled before quickly

his family now distracted, she knew this was

"Luisa, now," she whispered.

the lights turned off. The guests murmured among themselves. There was just enough light to see silhouettes, but since

she reached the top, she took the left corridor towards Linda's room. She found it without difficulty and breathed

there?" Luisa asked through

"Yes."

evidence here?" Luisa questioned skeptically through the

000

ago, when Thalassa was

had offered to clean Linda's room after the maid scheduled for the task had fallen and injured herself. Thalassa thought doing this was

Just as she was stepping out, she saw Linda standing by the wall of her bedroom, closing a hidden safe embedded in it. After closing the safe, Linda tapped twice on the wall, and the space sealed itself so seamlessly it appeared like an ordinary wall. Nobody would know that there was a safe hidden

was doing there and accusing her of spying on her. Thalassa had explained

and to tell no one about what she'd seen because she would blame Thalassa

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 incriminating evidence Linda had kept

conceal the safe in the wall, even though the safe was