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.

Eric and Hadley to stay together in order to keep Ernest close hadn’t been such a good plan after

barely managed to rest

only to find Linda awake

giving him a warm wave.

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

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

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a wry smile. “I saw we had everything

to cook at

words, Linda’s smile

a gentle sigh. “You’re so considerate toward Hadley… Ernest never bothered with the little things like that for me.” She had spent so many years by Ernest’s side. True, he was accommodating—but

he almost never took the initiative to

“Don’t dwell on it. Your situation with Ernest is different. Aren’t you in

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