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.

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. But suddenly, one of the guests, a much younger woman compared

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

to think about it, Meghan." Thalassa smiled before

now distracted, she knew this was the

"Luisa, now," she whispered.

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

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 door opened easily.

Luisa asked through the

"Yes."

find the evidence here?" Luisa questioned

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when Thalassa was

offered 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 Linda, showing

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

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,

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

much of the safe, truly believing there was only money in the safe. But now she was more than sure it contained the

why Linda had gone to such lengths to conceal the safe in the wall, even though