The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen) novel Chapter 1945

Thalassa's body hit the ground hard, too stunned to react in time. She tried to get up, but the man was quicker, pinning her hands behind her back and binding them with a leather belt.

"Let me go! This is against the law!" Thalassa struggled, her breathing heavy.

The man ignored her protests, flipping her over to tie her legs together with a necktie.

Thalassa couldn't struggle anymore. She widened her eyes, trying to get a good look at the man. He wore a baseball cap, pulled down low to hide his face, as he tightly knotted the tie around her legs.

Thalassa kicked at him, "Get away, don't touch me! Help!"

She continued to struggle and call for help.

By then, the man had tightly secured her legs together with a knot.

He stood up, facing Thalassa with a grim expression, "Stop yelling, or I’ll have to gag you."

Thalassa finally saw his face clearly, gasping in disbelief and shock, "Callum, how could it be you?"

She had been kidnapped several times, each instance terrifying and fraught with danger.

Each time, her kidnappers were filled with deep hatred towards her, or were inherently evil to the core.

She never imagined that one day, it would be Callum.

Callum had always been there for her, treating her with kindness and gentleness.

She thought he might have just strayed off path momentarily, committing a few wrongs just to get closer to her.

He never understood Leopold's obsession with a woman, unable to move on even after five years, desperately clinging to a love unreturned, and ultimately, even sacrificing his life.

Callum never felt pity for his good friend.

Until he got to know Thalassa, from initial curiosity to falling for her, and then being repeatedly rejected by her.

He finally understood Leopold's feelings.

Love was an obsession, a poison that once touched, becomes hard to quit.

He tried to forget Thalassa, to move on with other women, but he could only think of Thalassa. Turning around to find the person beside him wasn't her, filled him with a sense of profound loss, a pain as if his heart was stung by a bee, indescribable.