The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet novel Chapter 148

When Lysander spoke, Thalassa went from feeling innocent to all sorts of tense and jumpy.

If she couldn't explain things clearly, she might be up the creek without a paddle.

In a flap, she blurted out, “I didn’t swipe this, my neighbor Greta said she found it and was planning to give it back to me. I lost the exact same emerald pendant five years ago, everyone in the neighborhood knew about it. When Greta said she found my missing emerald pendant, I rushed back from Starhaven. I even gave her $300 as gratitude, But I didn’t know this emerald pendant was a phony.”

Despite her jumbled words, Lysander caught the important bits.

His eyes grew colder and filled with suspicion, “You're saying you lost a real emerald pendant?”

A nearby cop was all at sea. The emerald pendant was clearly real. He was stumped.

Thalassa nodded frantically, her eyes welling up with innocent tears, her lips trembling slightly, she said in a hurt tone, “Yes, I lost a real one five years ago, I never found it.”

Lysander’s heart rate suddenly picked up, he pulled Thalassa close and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to look directly at him, into his eyes.

His icy gaze bore into her, not missing a single flicker of her expression, “Was the one you lost your cousin Celia’s emerald pendant?”

Thalassa shook her head, “No, it was mine. A man gave me that emerald pendant. Celia passed away when she was three or four.”

When he heard this, Lysander felt like he'd been struck by lightning, just like that stormy, rain-soaked night five years ago. He was thrilled, excited, passionate, and shocked.

He stared at Thalassa's clear and sparkling eyes, her petite face, and her cherry-like lips, everything felt so familiar, so natural.

No wonder he felt a deep sense of familiarity the first time he saw her.

Her scent, the feel of her skin, even her bite felt exactly the same!

So, she was the woman he was with five years ago!