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 a

managed to rest

early and wandered downstairs, only to find Linda awake

the kitchen, giving him a

making breakfast. Toast with butter, eggs, and bacon…

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

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sleep,” Linda said, offering a wry smile. “I saw we had everything we needed in the fridge, so I decided to make

“With Hadley staying here, it’s simpler to cook at home.” Normally, he’d

words, Linda’s smile tightened ever so

never bothered with the little things like that for me.” She had

on it, he almost never took the initiative to anticipate what she

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

rarely had to go through Ernest to get what she