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

Chapter 386:

“Why are you looking at me? Don’t tell me you think I orchestrated their relationship?” Eric narrowed his eyes. He exhaled a sharp breath and pulled out a cigarette, taking a slow drag.

From the very beginning, he had said Denver and Hadley were not a good match. A divorced woman with no powerful family backing? How could a high-standing family like Denver’s ever approve? Only Nyla had indulged in such wishful thinking.

Barrie shifted his focus back to Marshall. “So where is Denver staying now? Is he managing?”

“He still has friends, alright? He’s crashing with one of them,” Marshall replied, shaking his head. “But word is, Hadley is not speaking to him. She blocked him.”

“What?” Barrie gawked. “So he is left with nothing?”

Then, after a beat, he nodded to himself, as if making sense of it. “Well, Hadley’s not wrong. Clinging to Denver now would be reckless.”

“Why would that be reckless?” Eric, who had been silent until now, suddenly cut in. He stubbed out his half-burned cigarette in the ashtray. “Was she the one clinging to Denver? Wasn’t it Denver who insisted? Denver knew what he was getting into from the start.”

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weight of his words settled over the room like a dense fog. Barrie and Marshall exchanged

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At last, she appeared.

“Hadley!”

stepped out of his car and closed the distance between

startled by his sudden presence.

the vehicle idling

tightened around her bag strap. “What is this about? We can talk right

get her. Eric felt a dull ache in his chest. If he

his throat, Eric spoke with an awkward stiffness. “Well, Denver is holding up for now. But relationships are a two-way street. He can’t be the only one fighting

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