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.

while, she was studying her surroundings. Linda and her crew were initially 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, who wouldn't stop looking at

her to see her reaction, but Thalassa pretended to have seen nothing, continuing her conversation with a woman who wouldn't stop

think about it, Meghan." Thalassa smiled before quickly

and his family now distracted, she knew

"Luisa, now," she whispered.

turned off. The guests murmured among themselves. There was just enough light to see silhouettes, but since Thalassa was wearing all

way to the stairs and quietly ascending. Once she reached the top, she took

Luisa asked

"Yes."

find the evidence here?" Luisa questioned

000

ago, when Thalassa

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

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

she was doing there and accusing her of spying on her. Thalassa had explained that she was just cleaning, but Linda had kicked her

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

only money in the safe. But now she was

such lengths to conceal the safe