The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)
Chapter 1473

Thalassa didn't slow her stride as she marched into the yard, swiftly opened the car door, and glanced back at Joshua. "You better head back. Don't keep your family waiting," she said curtly.

With those words, she slid into the driver's seat and drove off.

But Joshua felt a sting in his heart from her words. Thalassa still didn't consider the Whitman family as her own.

He had once suggested that Thalassa take their surname, but she had refused. She had said that she preferred being listed under her aunt and uncle-in-law's name in the family records. They had no children of their own, and she wanted to be their sole heir.

So, Thalassa's last name remained Everhart. Even though she had acknowledged Joshua as her father, she had never truly accepted him as family.

Joshua knew that he could never make up for over twenty years of absent fatherhood in just a few moments, but Thalassa's resistant attitude still left him feeling defeated.

As he watched Thalassa's car disappear into the distance, Joshua returned to the living room, his brow furrowed in frustration. He reproachfully said to Matilda, "What were you thinking, bringing up the marriage agreement between Lysander and Rosalind? A perfectly good family meal, ruined!"

"Joshua, get this straight-it's Zephyr who has issues with Thalassa and doesn't want her marrying into the Sinclair family. That's why he suggested Lysander and Rosalind's engagement. Without Rosalind, another debutante would just swoop in to claim Mrs. Sinclair's title. I was merely fighting for Rosalind's chance to be with Lysander. How is that wrong? If the title of Mrs. Sinclair isn't going to our family, it will go to someone else. Do you really want to see Lysander marry another woman and have no ties to us?" Matilda retorted, her irritation clear.

"I will fight for Thalassa's chance to be with Lysander," Joshua declared with a cold snort, seeing it as his only chance to make amends to Thalassa.

Matilda stood up, fuming, "Joshua, you would neglect our own flesh and blood, Rosalind, for that... that bastard? Lysander is a catch that many women are after, and you are giving him to that bastard just like that?"

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Worried about family harmony, Joshua softened his tone, "Don't call her that. I've told you before, if it weren't for Thalassa's mother saving me from those thugs twenty years ago, I'd be dead. I've searched for Thalassa's mother for over two decades. Now she's gone, leaving behind her only daughter, who is also my child. Of course, I need to make up for my absence and repay her mother's life-saving grace," he reasoned with Matilda.

Matilda's chest heaved with anger. "It's the Sinclair family who doesn't want Thalassa. It's not me! I'm just trying to secure the position of Mrs. Sinclair for Rosalind."

She knew Joshua's kindness towards Thalassa was driven by gratitude and guilt. But it didn't soothe the ache in her heart.

Her husband had been intimate with another woman, and she couldn't even reproach him or that woman-that was the real thorn in her side.

Thalassa's very existence was a constant reminder that her husband had been with someone else and had fathered a child!

To her, it was a humiliation, causing pain with every beat.

How could she ever genuinely accept Thalassa?

"I'll handle this. You stay out of it," Joshua said firmly.

"I'm off to class. You two can keep arguing!" Rosalind suddenly exclaimed, dropping her fork with a clatter on the dining table.