The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen) novel Chapter 1340

Lysander navigated the streets with a sense of grim determination, his car cutting through the city like a silent specter. The glove compartment held his birth certificate, a symbol of the commitment he had declared the night before. He had vowed to marry Thalassa, and today was the day for him to make good on that promise.

Marrying Thalassa had always been in Lysander's plans, but life had thrown a wrench into the works. Leopold’s arrival had shattered any illusions by revealing the truth—that Thalassa’s heart belonged to another.

The specter of his father’s fate loomed over him; a man who had met a tragic end for marrying a woman in love with someone else. His grandfather had always warned him not to follow in his father's footsteps, to stay lucid. He could indulge in the physical allure of Thalassa but should never take her seriously.

To marry her would be a dangerous move. It would transform him into a man like his father, desperate to win her love.

Hatred also brewed within Lysander for Bruce, the culprit of his parents’ downfall. Bruce had meddled in their marriage, deceived his mother and convinced her to elope with him—a man so vile that every fiber of Lysander’s being recoiled in disgust.

By extension, Lysander had once resented Thalassa, for she carried the blood of that despicable man. Whenever Lysander felt a softening towards her, the thought of her lineage would turn his heart to ice.

He hated his own inability to erase her from his life for good. Out of sight, out of mind would be the greatest kindness he could afford himself, but it was an impossible feat.

The mere thought of her vanishing from his life, of Thalassa laughing and living happily with another man, left him breathless with a suffocating sense of loss.