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.”

chose this path, he should see it

of his words settled over the room like a dense fog.

next day,

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At last, she appeared.

“Hadley!”

his car and closed the distance between them with purposeful

turned, startled by his sudden presence. “Is there…

toward the vehicle idling at the curb. “Get

bag strap. “What is this about? We

was some sort of threat? The way she was acting, one might assume he was out to get her. Eric felt a dull ache

holding up for now. But relationships are a two-way street. He can’t be the

caught off guard, the weight of his words throwing her off