Too Late, Mr. Billionaire: You Can't Afford Me by Thedora Birnir

Chapter 11

Chapter 11 Hadley Rejects

Him

“Release me!”

As their skin made contact, Hadley experienced a startling zap, reminiscent of an electric shock, prompting her

to jerk her hand away from Eric.

“What?” Eric paused, looking at his hand in surprise. “Are you really pushing me away like this, Hadley

“…”

Turning her head aside, Hadley muttered, “I can manage on my own. I’ll just walk behind you.”

“What?”

With a raised eyebrow and a hint of sarcasm, Eric responded, “You’re avoiding my touch?”

He moved closer, his irritation evident.

“Do you think I’m eager to hold you? Had you not been lagging, I wouldn’t have needed to. Your overreaction is

really unnecessary.”

Hadley cast her eyes downward, her eyelashes casting shadows as she stayed quiet.

Eric scoffed and spun around. “Just keep up!”

“Alright.”

Hadley gave a nod, quietly breathing a sigh of relief. She might have been overreacting, but it was involuntary

As soon as his fingers grazed hers, a chill reminiscent of a serpent’s touch crept across her skin.

This sensation filled her with revulsion and unease.

Instinctively, she withdrew her hand.

Eric’s brisk pace soon created a gap between them, and his glance back at her carried a shadow of annoyance

“Could you possibly move any quicker?”

“Sure!”

Hadley hastened her steps to keep up with him.

Eric’s gaze narrowed as he pondered the recent interaction. Had Hadley really just rejected him?

He recalled a time when she scarcely could bear to be apart from him….

Her stint overseas appeared to have transformed her.

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Indeed, this was the change he had been hoping for.

Looking back, he realized sending her away was undoubtedly the correct choice.

always been this sensible, perhaps he could have regarded her as a sister, much

ringing

paused to answer

“Hello, Linda.”

name, Hadley discreetly

words.

the call, he looked at Hadley. “Stay

before she

“Hey…“.

but then halted, releasing

effort.

really didn’t need his

instructed her to wait, she

temper had clearly worsened,

“Linda!”

his way

Linda would have departed with her assistant by now, but she was unexpectedly still

with a faint smile, waving as she sat beside her

the matter? Why

much to

dismissed the concern with a smile. “Really,

“That’s not true.”

tell Mr. Flynn the

is!”

of Linda’s dress for Eric to

take a look at

the pronounced swelling

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to

“I just didn’t want to

only makes me

paused briefly before inquiring, “Are you able

at all!” her assistant interjected. “She attempted a few steps, but it

“Understood.”

furrow of his brow, Eric said, “We should head to the

in his arms and instructed her assistant,

“Right away, Mr. Flynn!”

bit her lip, embarrassed. “I hate

are you

with irritation. “Looking after you is

her smile faint

glanced at her phone again. Twenty minutes had elapsed,

sign of Eric.

herself, not surprised in

had obviously

was typical Eric behavior, something Hadley had come

phone away, she decided to start her journey home

no longer ran, and a taxi was

make it on foot.

all the

with Linda, ensuring

in her ankle; thankfully, no bones were broken. A cast was fitted, and rest prescribed, with

then escorted her back to

once carried his child, a pregnancy that

long embraced her as Ernest’s wife, and

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