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

Chapter 377:

A voice halted him just as he was about to climb the stairs. Turning, he spotted his parents, Roderick and Wilma Moran.

“Dad, Mom.”

The pair had just returned from a social affair.

As luck would have it, Denver had been waiting for them.

Wilma took a few steps forward, her expression unreadable as she sized up her son. “You’re back earlier than I expected…” Then her eyes landed on the box in his hand.

Her gaze darkened like storm clouds rolling in. “What’s that you’ve got there?”

“This…” Denver didn’t dodge the question. With a bright smile, he answered, “It’s a bracelet.”

Since he was about to bring up Hadley anyway, there was no point in playing coy.

in a heartbeat. “Is that the

“Yes.”

look.” Without waiting for permission, Wilma plucked the box from Denver’s hands, opened it, and gazed at the ruby bracelet nestled

chuckle at the sight of the bracelet, her expression tinged with

whispers she had overheard at the evening’s gathering gnawed at her as

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shaking his head. “You’ll see soon enough,

too was far from pleased with the rumors that had reached

plush sofa in the

Why the long faces?” He had been

slid the delicate bracelet box onto the coffee table with a deliberate air. “Why did you take this out of the safe?

“Hardly!”

they’d brought it up—he was just about to spill the