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.

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

to rest that

downstairs, only to find Linda awake even

giving him a warm wave. “Come sit

“Have some coffee first. I’m making breakfast. Toast with butter, eggs, and bacon… You still like them, don’t you? It’s been ages since

making breakfast?” Eric echoed, setting aside the coffee he’d just lifted to his lips. “What

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

at home.” Normally, he’d just eat

smile

that for me.” She had spent so many years

back on it, he almost never took the initiative to

noticed the sadness in Linda’s eyes. “Don’t dwell on it. Your situation with Ernest is different. Aren’t you in charge of

held the purse strings, she rarely had to go through Ernest to get what she