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

Chapter 202 Don’t Know What He’s Thinking

Hadley smirked, just as she had anticipated.

Fortunately, she had a backup plan up her sleeve.

Although she had made a pact with Linda, she made sure to be careful.

Earlier that morning, before passing Elissa’s phone to Linda, she had made a subtle shift. She recorded the video Elissa had captured of Linda tripping her.

In this age of advanced smartphones, any hint of uploading or transferring could easily leave traces behind… how could Linda not notice?

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That was because Hadley didn’t sent the video to her phone directly; she recorded the video anew using her own phone instead! She had also tucked it away in her cloud drive.

Taking a deep breath, Hadley picked up her phone, opened the video, and placed it in front of Eric.

“Could you take a quick look at this?”

“What’s this about?” Eric asked, feigning nonchalance as he stared at the screen.

His brows knitted together sharply… Linda actually pushed Hadley! Was it true?

Was Hadley hurt? Where were her injuries?

“You”

But before he could voice his thought, Hadley cut him off.

she tucked her phone away. “Flynn Group owns East Entertainment Media. I trust you can imagine the fallout if this video sees the light of day. If you release Elissa, I promise to destroy the video.”

What?

Eric was momentarily taken aback.

So she wasn’t showing him the video to play the victim! She was leveraging it to coerce him into freeing Elissa?

No wonder she hadn’t asked for his help outright–she had this ace up her sleeve!

Quite clever indeed.

“Did you use this to convince Linda to drop the lawsuit yesterday?”

“Yes.” Hadley nodded, nearly certain he felt cornered.

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Linda’s reputation

sly smile. “As long as Elissa is released, I’ll keep my

“Why should 1?”

closer, closing the space between them

cold glint in his eyes

me, are

mouth, her expression hardening. “Do you want to safeguard Linda’s reputation and

you want Elissa to pay the price for

and meeting his gaze without

don’t want to resort to this, but since you’re so invested in Linda, this

“Enough!”

his hand, pressing his thumb against her lips to silence her. Her mouth kept moving, failing to utter the words he actually wanted to hear.

he cared about Linda, even learning how to threaten him! so clever, yet why couldn’t she see that everything he did was for her? It

suddenly loosened his tie, gasping for breath.

eyes, bewildered.

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reached a stalemate, Eric’s “new girlfriend” in the passenger seat

voice her anger, softly reminding him, “Mr.

“Be quiet!

woman flinched, on the verge of tears. “Mr. Flynn, we’ve arrived.”

car had come to

on the window twice, also

“Got it!

relent, releasing Hadley and stepping out of the

her hand trembling as it brushed against his arm, Eric cast a fleeting glance downward,

Eric didn’t scold

strolled ahead, Hadley hurried to keep pace. “Eric, what’s your take on what I mentioned earlier?

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or no deal?”

chuckled

a halt, his hands buried in his pockets, his eyelids lifting slightly. “Let me mull it over.”

ambled off with his new girlfriend, not sparing a

time to think? When it came to Linda, was there really

long would this deliberation last?

the more Elissa would suffer. If he took too long, it could even jeopardize

she

extending his arm toward her. “Mr. Flynn suggests you wait inside.

“Okay, thank you.”

clinging to hope.

suspense, not giving an immediate answer, was likely a way to release some of Linda’s

faces for Hadley, yet none were truly hers.