Blimey, My Kid's the Heir to the Billionaire Boss! by Nora Hoover

Chapter 210 The Perfect Standby

"It's all my fault," Mason admitted with self-reproach. "If I hadn't acted on impulse and cut everyone off after leaving Newark, your dad wouldn't have faced those problems." "It's not on you," Sadie Roth took a deep breath. "Maybe it's just fate."

"You never used to talk like that," Mason looked at her with empathy. "These years must have been hard for you, right?"

"It's not about hardship; it's just..." Sadie Roth fought the urge to pour her heart out and changed the subject. "Mason, did you come back to visit Arianna and your dad?" "I came for you," Mason's gaze was intense. "I heard about your troubles and wanted to see if there was anything I could do for you."

"You shouldn't be so good to me..." Sadie's voice broke as she began to sob. "The better you are to me, the more guilty I feel."

She glanced at his hand on the steering wheel, the left adorned with a black glove to cover the missing ring finger...

That finger, meant for a wedding band, was lost because of her.

"Don't be silly!" Mason, seeing her about to cry, immediately pulled her into an embrace. "I take joy in being kind to you. Let me be happy, okay?"

a sniffle, Sadie Roth nestled

faced challenges head-on, always

she had her limits, moments of feeling

Brenda and the kids see her unravel, but now, in the sanctuary of these

with me here," Mason whispered, kissing her hair.

Sadie's mouth opened, yet no words followed. She couldn't confess about hiring a male escort once upon a time and now having three kids by him, or that she was being blackmailed by the White family, threatening to expose

Clemens forced her into a debt settlement that not even Mason's hundred million

Mason too much already; she couldn't allow her troubles to drag him

enemy of

to keep him

it's not true. With your character, after Ronan Potter bailed at the clutch four years ago, you would never

I'm back, no one can hurt

furrowed, his protective instincts