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.

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

at her to see her reaction, but Thalassa pretended to

about it, Meghan." Thalassa smiled

and his family now distracted,

"Luisa, now," she whispered.

seconds later, the hall was plunged into darkness as the lights turned off. The guests murmured among themselves. There was just enough light to see silhouettes, but since Thalassa was wearing all black, she knew it would be hard for anyone to spot her in

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

there?" Luisa asked through the

"Yes."

find the evidence here?" Luisa questioned skeptically through the earbud. "I'm sure," Thalassa

000

ago, when

gain Linda's approval, she had offered to clean Linda's room after the maid scheduled for the task had fallen and injured herself. Thalassa

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.

Linda saw Thalassa, she had been furious, demanding what she was doing there and accusing her of spying on her. Thalassa had explained that she was just cleaning, but Linda

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

only money in the safe.

such lengths to conceal