The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet novel Chapter 44

The truth was, Faye transferred all five million dollars to Isabella.

Isabella eavesdropped on Faye's phone call and found out that Faye mistakenly claimed that the woman who had a past with Lysander was dead.

But the only woman who had a past with Lysander was Thalassa!

Faye just couldn't let Lysander know about it.

Isabella threatened Faye with this, saying she would spill the beans if Faye didn't cough up the cash.

So Faye handed over the whole five million to Isabella to keep her trap shut.

Over the past five years, due to this secret, Isabella kept shaking Faye down for money.

This time, when Lysander asked Faye to dig up info on that woman, she immediately rang up Isabella, telling her to cook up a seemingly legit and foolproof profile and get it into the boss's office.

Isabella's timing was spot on; any delay, and Lysander would have known Thalassa's real identity.

With Faye and Isabella's stories adding up, Lysander didn't smell a rat, but he was puzzled: "That family only has three people left. With three million bucks, how could they be strapped for cash?"

Why would Thalassa have to steal and resort to fraud?

Isabella had her answer ready. She coolly told Lysander, "Mr. Sinclair, you might not know that Thalassa's mother, also known as Evelyn, is a gambling junkie; she can lose a fortune overnight. Three million bucks is peanuts to her. And poor Thalassa, all the money she cleverly earned was blown by her mother. I offered her a job at my company out of pity. But she made less dough there than at the Sinclair Group; maybe that's why she hid her identity, preferring to pull a fast one on the Sinclair Group just to keep her job here. Mr. Sinclair, please don't hold it against her. After all, she's got a tough life."

To make it more believable, Isabella even pretended to put in a good word for Thalassa and plead her case in front of Lysander.

After all, if she came across as kind-hearted and friendly, Lysander might buy her story.

If Lysander started to smell a rat and decided to dig deeper, that would be bad news.

After all, Celia did exist and did pass away, but she drowned in a village pond when she was three not killed by a falling object. And she died a long time ago, not five years ago.