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

Chapter 271:

A slow, dangerous tension settled over Eric, his hostility spiking in an instant. His entire presence became menacing, his sharp gaze locking onto the man like a predator that had just found its prey.

“Who the hell are you?” Eric’s voice cut through the air like a blade.

The sheer iciness in his tone sent an involuntary shudder down the man’s spine. For the briefest second, he was sure he saw something terrifying flicker in Eric’s eyes—something that made his blood run cold.

If eyes could kill, he had no doubt he’d already be dead.

The man swallowed hard, his Adam’s apple bobbing as panic seized him. He quickly turned his pleading gaze to Hadley.

Hadley let out an exasperated sigh. What was he looking at her for? Did he really expect her to save him?

“Are you stupid? If you know what’s good for you, run!”

“Oh! O-okay!”

to be told twice—without a second thought, he spun around and took

can just

answer, he was already moving, his long strides closing the distance between him and his fleeing

“Don’t!”

instinct, Hadley shot out her hand and grasped his wrist, bringing

his voice laced with simmering anger. “Are you seriously trying to

go. She already knew if she so much as loosened her hold, he’d be off again in a flash. For a second, Hadley just stared at Eric, dumbfounded. Then, irritation flared in her chest, and she snapped, “How the hell did you get that idea? Which part of this looks like

a point. She had been fighting him off, not siding with him

𝓥𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓮: 𝗀𝖺𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀﹒ⅽ𝗈𝗺

like him?” Neither of them mattered to her—Eric was terrible enough, but the middle-aged man who had just fled? He was the very source of her pain, the person she despised most in this world. And yet, despite

still. Then, something flickered in