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

Chapter 179

Chapter 179 Don’t Take Hadley’s Things

The buzz–cut man wheezed, gasping through the pain, his body trembling from the brutal beating.

“Don’t let her fool you–that woman is a menace! Even after I had her cornered, she smashed through the car window with a kick! She grabbed a glass shard–stabbed me with it!”

To prove his words, he yanked up his sleeve, revealing a mess of jagged cuts and dried blood.

“Look! She did this! All of it!”

Tears streaked his face, his bravado shattered.

“Shut up!” Eric snapped. “Stop your pathetic whining–I asked you where she is!”

“I–I don’t know…”

Still nothing.

Eric’s grip tightened, his rage swelling like a storm. Exhaling sharply, his gaze dropped to Linda, still clinging desperately to his waist. “Linda.” He locked eyes with her, his tone dangerously steady. “Move. I’m going to kill him!”

The bastard wouldn’t talk until he was staring death in the face.

“No!” Her pulse pounded, but she didn’t waver. “I think… he really doesn’t know!”

“I swear! I really don’t know!” The man sobbed, his breath ragged. “She stabbed me and then bolted out of the car! I… I tried, but I couldn’t catch up!”

“Eric!”

Linda’s voice cut through the tension, her grip tightening around him as she looked up at his face. “I think he’s telling the truth. At this point, lying wouldn’t help him.”

Eric understood, but his chest felt heavy. Where the hell could Hadley have gone?

If she had fought back with a glass shard, was she hurt, too?

His eyes snapped open. “Where?”

The man blinked through his swollen face, confused. “W–What? What do you mean–where?”

‘Unless you want to die, tell me where she ran off to?”

“Eric!” Linda tightened her grip, pulling him back just as his body tensed.

“I know! I know!”

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The man nearly choked on his words, his entire body trembling with fear.

cracking. “She got off there! That’s where we

I don’t know anything else! She ran, and that’s it! That’s all I know–I swear on my life!”

Rayton Road.

sat in quiet contemplation, his brows slightly furrowed. After a moment,

he regarded the shaking man on the floor with

was calm–but chilling.

is a lie–I won’t take your life, but here, in Srixby, I

Ernest pressed a button on his

“Quentin.”

crisp, professional.

Rayton Road.

isolated stretch with no signs

off here, there was no telling where could

combing the area, leading searches in every possible direction. But

Eventually, dawn broke…

his

impossible. After all, Hadley had been missing for almost

a coat,

family, no close

she now?, Alone? Freezing?

was he still here,

foot of the stairs, arms crossed, her face drawn

Quentin and Phillips was grim. They had scoured every inch of Rayton

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airports–not even a whisper in accident

vanished. As if she had never existed.

attempting

ready.

voice heavy, her

hand on her shoulder. “I know you’re worried. We all

Ernest, her tone turning more insistent. “And you–you’re still recovering,

then gave a short nod.

who stood motionless, staring blankly at the floor.

rough, barely above a whisper. “Grandma, Ernest–you should

Linda started, but then-

room, calm yet absolute. “He’s the one in the wrong. Let him face

wasn’t just pitying Hadley, was he? He

Upstairs.

He walked in,

he inhaled deeply–clinging to the

are you,

warmth of her space, rest wouldn’t come. Closing his eyes only made the unease worse.

point, a knock sounded at the door.

Phillips.

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