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?”

swollen, tear-streaked eyes wavered, her lips trembling as fresh

are you still chasing after him? Have you forgotten that

yet you are still holding

doubt about that. And if she had been capable of harming Hadley once, what was stopping her from doing it

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raw emotion. “What does any of this have

faltered, caught

she suddenly shouted at him.

want you!” Eric blurted out, his

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

he realized he couldn’t

air, swallowed by the heavy silence that

eyes locked, and Hadley’s expression twisted as if she had just heard the most absurd

hadn’t even dried, yet a chuckle escaped her

you laughing?” Eric stiffened. A strange