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.

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. But suddenly, one of the guests,

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 business ideas and

about it, Meghan." Thalassa

now distracted, she knew this was the

"Luisa, now," she whispered.

There was just enough light

the mansion for a year, she 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 door opened easily. She quickly entered, closing the door

Luisa asked through the

"Yes."

here?" Luisa questioned skeptically through the earbud.

000

ago, when Thalassa

eager to 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 thought doing this

in it. After closing the safe, Linda tapped twice on the

doing there and accusing her of spying on her. Thalassa

no one about

the safe. But now she was

to such lengths to conceal the