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

Chapter 584:

But before he could voice his thought, Hadley cut him off.

She tucked her phone away. “Flynn Group owns East Entertainment Media. I trust you can imagine the fallout if this video sees the light of day. If you release Elissa, I promise to destroy the video.”

What?

Eric was momentarily taken aback.

So she wasn’t showing him the video to play the victim! She was leveraging it to coerce him into freeing Elissa?

No wonder she hadn’t asked for his help outright—she had this ace up her sleeve!

Quite clever indeed.

“Did you use this to convince Linda to drop the lawsuit yesterday?”

“Yes.” Hadley nodded, nearly certain he felt cornered.

he jeopardize Linda’s reputation

as Elissa is released, I’ll keep my part of

“Why should I?”

Eric leaned in closer, closing the space between them as

in his eyes revealed

are

to safeguard Linda’s reputation and future, or do you want Elissa to pay the price for Linda’s wrath? The choice

𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝗿𝓼 𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓬𝓴 𝗳𝗼𝗿

herself, lifting her chin and meeting his gaze

so invested

“Enough!”

his hand, pressing his thumb against her lips

kept moving, failing to utter the words he actually

kept insisting he cared about Linda, even learning how to threaten

everything

Eric suddenly loosened

her large eyes, bewildered.

As they reached a…