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

Chapter 54

Chapter 54 Bail Her Out

Hadley cast a fleeting glance at Eric before lowering her head with a faint smile. “No need, I will tell the police

whatever they need to know.”

She was curious to see if Eric truly believed he could dictate every turn of her fate.

Eric had not expected her to dig in her heels like this. Was it really so impossible for her to just talk to him and clear things up?

Trapped between frustration and disbelief, Eric let out a cold, sharp laugh. “Fine, perfect! Let’s get moving then!”

Did she think he relished interfering in her affairs? If he kept sticking his nose in, he might as well be a fool.

“Let’s go!”

Hadley turned and followed the policewoman out.

A moment later, a loud crash echoed behind her. She froze for a heartbeat. Eric had overturned the coffee table

in a fit of rage.

The room lay in ruins.

At the police station.

“Officer, I have explained everything clearly.”

She had been repeating herself like a scratched record, yet the officers remained unimpressed.

“You claim you are innocent, so why were you

there?”

Hadley opened her mouth, but then shut it again.

She had been alone in that room, just as she had already said.

“Your story is full of holes, Miss Pearson. You need to tell us the truth.”

Hadley fell silent, the pressure pressing down on her like a boulder.

“Any witnesses? Friends? Family? Someone who can vouch for you?”

This…

Her mind went blank. She had no one.

The officer sighed. “Alright, detain her for now.”

He snapped his notebook shut and motioned for her to be taken away.

The iron door groaned, and she was shoved inside a cell.

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women were already there, their skimpy outfits clashing with the heavy makeup they

pressed her lips together and

way

letting us out?” one of them grumbled with a

buck

still worried about cash? We should count ourselves lucky they are not shipping us off to one

from the government is not too

listened, a gnawing dread

the same fate? She had

quite prison, but still a cage. She could

not seen this mess coming.

not let that man slip

by, unlocked the door, and hauled two women out. “You two,

White Lake?” the officer asked his colleague.

“Yeah.”

their hushed exchange and tightened her arms

Prison stood.

Just sit here and wait for the walls to close in?

She shut her eyes for

she stood up and moved to the iron

allowed her one call, and Hadley

was Phillips who answered. “I will pass it along to Mr.

“Alright, thank you.”

up and

No one came.

brought in, so she had lost all sense of time. Each second crawled by

Men like him did not take

to resign herself to her

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Bail

“Hadley Pearson?”

snapped

is here. Come

fists clenching unconsciously. For a split second, she felt an overwhelming urge

to cry.

in a chair as if the entire station

at

have a real fondness for police stations. You have not been back

second visit.”

in front of him with her head

me down here just to play the silent

lifting her gaze to meet his. “I

“What?”

“Have not what? You are speaking in riddles.”

he was playing with her on purpose.

he always

care about her?

chance. Not in

because they had not divorced yet? But that was a weak excuse. Their marriage had been dead for four years, nothing more than an

Eric wanted answers, and if Hadley wanted her freedom, she

brows and spoke carefully. “The question you asked and the

have not…”

what?” Eric refused to

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