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

Chapter 559:

Once her initial surprise faded, a strange twinge of hurt welled up inside her, something she couldn’t quite name.

“Eric.” Linda’s voice slipped into a soft laugh. “Are you actually in love with Hadley?”

Love?

For a moment, Eric looked as though he’d been struck.

What was love? It was a word too heavy to toss around casually. Rather than answering directly, he sidestepped. “Hadley’s my girlfriend. Of course I’d make allowances for her.”

He really said that?

The corners of Linda’s mouth lifted into a taut, chilly smile. He seemed to have forgotten that Hadley was once his wife—someone he certainly hadn’t cared for this much back then.

He’d changed.

to stay together in order to keep Ernest close hadn’t been such

managed to

rose early and wandered downstairs, only to find Linda awake

giving him a warm wave. “Come

Linda came over with a steaming mug. “Have some coffee first. I’m making breakfast. Toast with

coffee he’d just lifted to his lips. “What time

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said, offering a wry smile. “I saw we had everything we needed

Hadley staying here, it’s simpler to cook at home.” Normally, he’d just eat out when he was

Linda’s smile tightened ever

the little things like that for me.” She had spent so many years by Ernest’s side. True, he

back on it, he almost never

it. Your situation with

that because she held the purse strings, she rarely had to go through Ernest to