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

Chapter 723:

Ernest let out a sharp breath, incredulous. “Drop you off?”

His frustration was evident now. “So that man can find you again? Hurt you again?”

Elissa’s breath caught.

He had pieced it together without her saying a word?

“Elissa.” His voice was gentler this time, the edge gone. “I don’t do things halfway. If I’m helping you, I’m seeing it through. We’re going to the hospital.”

“But—” She faltered. The idea of him accompanying her, of being involved at all, felt… too much. She didn’t deserve such kindness, truly.

Almost as if sensing her unease, he added, “You don’t trust me? How about this? When we get there, I’ll call Hadley, and she will stay with you. You trust Hadley, don’t you?”

That left her with no room to argue.

finally sighed, sagging against the door in

“Elissa!”

waiting in the emergency center, having received the

weak, pained smile, but it did little to mask

friend—bruised, battered, barely holding herself together. Questions burned

thing that mattered was getting Elissa the medical

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checked out.” Elissa

surface-level contusions, but the swelling around

this injury. The impact was dangerously close to your eyeball…” He

Elissa swallowed hard.

accustomed to treating emergency cases, hesitated before asking, “Was it your partner who did this to

color drained from Elissa’s

confirmation he needed. His

sharp with disapproval. “You need to cut that toxic partner out of your life. There are plenty of good men in the world. And even if you never meet