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

Chapter 526:

“Be good, sweetheart. You need to get your shot,” she murmured, tucking a stray curl behind Joy’s ear. “If you don’t, you’ll get sick, and… Mommy will be really worried.”

Joy, who had been pouting in resistance, suddenly perked up at the…

Last part.

“Like Mommy is now?” she asked sweetly.

“Yes,” Hadley said with a small smile. “When Mommy gets sick, doesn’t Joy worry too?”

“I do,” Joy answered without hesitation.

She sat still for a moment, her tiny fists clenched, clearly torn between fear and bravery. “I don’t want Mommy to worry… I’ll get the shot.”

Hadley’s chest tightened with pride. “Joy is such a good girl.”

“Well then!” Melba clapped her hands and lifted Joy into her arms. “Let’s go, sweetheart! And if you’re brave and don’t cry, I’ll buy you a candy later, okay?”

against Melba’s shoulder, but she turned

added,

beamed. “Yay!

Joy then whispered happily, “Thank you,

girl,” Melba said warmly before

the kind that makes anyone want to have daughters.” She dropped her bag onto the table, and then gestured toward Hadley’s bandaged hand. “Don’t worry, I won’t breathe a word about

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take a look at your hand. Do you need your

showed her palm to her friend. “I think

furrowed as she carefully unwrapped the bandage. It didn’t look fine at all. The wound looked inflamed, the skin around it

doesn’t look great,” she murmured. “We should get you

“Hospital.”

jerked back instantly, her face paling, shoulders trembling slightly. “If I

had learned from Elissa that Eric had been to the dance troupe, interrogating everyone, searching

He wasn’t giving up.

she didn’t want to see

go.” Elissa glanced at Hadley’s trembling hands and softened her