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

Chapter 458:

When he didn’t receive an answer, Eric reached for a familiar piece he had seen her wear before and stepped out.

Suddenly, he heard something fall onto the floor with a loud thud. “Hadley!”

Eric’s pulse slammed against his ribs. He was at her side in a heartbeat, gathering her up in his arms.

A deep furrow creased his brow. “What just happened? How did you fall?” A beat passed, and an unsettling thought seized him. He couldn’t bring himself to believe it. “Did you do that on purpose?”

Hadley neither looked at him nor answered.

But what else could it be? The truth was written all over her—she had done this to herself.

“Why did you jump out of bed?”

Eric’s temper flared, rising like a storm he could no longer contain. His hands tightened around her shoulders, his grip just shy of punishing. “Or what? To chase after Denver?”

as fresh tears spilled down her cheeks.

you still chasing after him? Have you forgotten that

has done nothing but hurt you, and yet you are still holding on? Do you really think there

despised Hadley—there was no doubt about that. And if she had been capable of

𝓒𝓸𝓹𝓲𝒓𝒊𝓰𝒉𝓉 𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓬𝓴 at g𝓪𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝗅𝓈.𝒄0m

about you?” Hadley lifted her tear-streaked face, her eyes burning with raw emotion. “What

faltered, caught off

cracked as she suddenly shouted

told you before. I want you!” Eric blurted out, his agitation spilling

had turned him down before, and he had forced himself to

he realized he couldn’t really

lingered in the air, swallowed by the heavy silence that settled over the

and Hadley’s expression twisted as if she

even dried, yet a chuckle escaped her lips.

laughing?” Eric stiffened. A