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. Eric was

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felt a deep frustration at her lack of self-respect. “His mother has done nothing but hurt you, and yet you are still

Hadley—there was no doubt about that. And if she had been capable of harming Hadley once, what was stopping

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burning with raw emotion. “What does any of this have to do with

faltered, caught off

suddenly shouted at him.

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

him down before, and he had forced himself

couldn’t really let her

by the heavy silence that settled over

if she had just heard the most

tears hadn’t even dried, yet a

laughing?” Eric stiffened. A strange unease crawled