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

Chapter 474:

Her easy agreement threw him off. He’d expected resistance. As she pushed off the table, she swayed on her feet.

Eric caught her arm before she tipped over, smirking. “Miss Pearson, are you sure you can still find your way?”

“Mm!” Hadley bobbed her head and pointed toward the front door. “That way.”

“Tsk.” He let out a low chuckle. “Brilliant. Come on. I’ll take you.”

Hadley didn’t resist as he guided her upstairs.

The moment they stepped into her room, she slipped free from his grip and disappeared into the bathroom.

“Hadley?”

Eric lingered by the door, unsure if she was sick. He didn’t step in and just waited.

Minutes passed. Still nothing.

His chest tightened. He rapped his knuckles against the door. “Hadley, you good in there?”

Not even a

quickening. “If you don’t answer, I’m

His jaw

to find her sitting on the

kneeling. “What’s wrong? Do

lifted her head and met his gaze. Then, out

in it. Eric’s stomach sank.

Lᴀt𝑒st chαptєrs in ɢ𝓪lnovels.𝑐𝑜𝑚

“Where does it hurt?”

that unreadable smile still in place. “I’m

“Really?”

of it. That look—it was the same one she had the day she broke up with Denver. Was she

“Let’s get you up.”

pulling her

he could help her stand, she suddenly gripped his arm and whispered, “Eric, I’ve

to a

own breath—the hammering in his

again.”

the one who’d been drinking,