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Too Late, Mr. Billionaire: You Can’t Afford Me Now

Chapter 150 Hopeless Romantic

“Hey, are you listening?”

Noticing Hadley frozen in place, the assailant grabbed her arm impatiently and pulled her up.

“Hadley!”

Next to her, Elissa attempted to intervene but was quickly subdued at gunpoint. “Don’t move!”

“And you over there!”

Another dancer from Red Choreography, roughly Hadley’s height, was forcefully taken alongside Hadley from the dressing room.

A fleeting look passed between Hadley and the dancer, both were pale and shaking, uncertain of their fate…

The police had encircled the theater by now.

Using a megaphone, they attempted to communicate with the captors inside.

“Attention, everyone inside…”

“We have nothing to discuss! We’re going to blow this place up today!”

“Please, think this through!”

The assailants showed no interest in negotiating.

Negotiations appeared to be at an impasse.

Back inside, the theater’s main stage remained hidden behind an unopened curtain. Both Hadley and the dancer were unconscious and bound to chairs.

Eric, disguised in a security guard’s outfit, slipped through the curtains and onto the stage.

“Hadley!”

He dropped to one knee before her. But she gave no response.

Instead, it was the girl next to Hadley who, stirred by the noise, weakly opened her eyes.

She caught sight of Eric and started to speak.

“Keep quiet if you want to make it out of here!” Eric warned her sharply.

Her eyes darted open in surprise, blinking quickly instead of giving the usual nod.

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Eric sensed that something was amiss.

She looked toward him and silently motioned upwards.

Just then, Eric noticed that both Hadley and the girl were balancing a beam on their heads.

What on earth was going on?

Rising to his feet, Eric found his frown deepened as he surveyed the bizarre scene.

narrowed at the discovery–it was

beam sat a tiny bead. Its fall to either

An unpredictable bomb!

question was how long Hadley and the girl could maintain their fragile balance.

his options?

clock ticked down, Eric retrieved a folding

reaching out without shifting his weight, he extended the knife towards the girl.

I do, take her and run as fast as you can.”

“What?”

from the girl’s face as she

he could keep

for

“Alright then, I’m

“No!”

surged through the girl. Him letting go now would definitely set off the bomb, likely dooming them

no

reluctantly and said,

to escape without her, I’ll let this beam fall, and it’ll be the end for us

all!”

fear. “I…

“Good!”

girl’s restraints, tossed the knife aside, and

he said, “I’m counting to three. One, two, three!”

m

go of Hadley, she caught

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now!” Eric urged in a low voice, sweat dripping from his

“Right!”

girl lifted Hadley onto her shoulders

of loud

continued to

were several more shots after

it be those

and looked back at Eric with mixed emotions. “What about you? What’s

Eric

was she asking so

you stay, we all die!”

“Oh, okay!”

she turned and sprinted away with

daring to move. He curled his lips into a bitter smile.

should he do next?

the day he would

his life to come to an end like this!

to be his fate, forever

soon blocked by approaching figures. Panicked, she turned

police! Identify yourself! Who are you and

Her eyes

were actually the

“Officer!”

bring them over here!”

“Officer!”

else, she clung to the officer and pointed frantically toward

we’re on it! Fetch the

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