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

Chapter 764

Chapter 764:

“Guess who I ran into today?” Hadley narrowed her eyes, a teasing lilt in her voice.

“Who?” Eric furrowed his brows, genuinely puzzled.

Hadley scoffed, her arms folding across her chest. “Oh, drop the act.”

“What?” Eric ran a hand through his hair. “You’re here as a mentor for the show, right? So… let me guess. Linda?”

Hadley arched a brow, her silence speaking louder than words.

“I swear, I had no idea!” Eric protested. “East Entertainment Media—it was Ernest’s creation, built for Linda. Now that he’s awake, of course, he’s looking after her career again. You have to believe me…”

Hadley neither confirmed nor denied whether she believed him. Her phone buzzed in her hand.

caller

a breath before

flustered female voice sounded—it

“Elissa?”

last seen

voice cut through the line, sharp and

think you’re doing, Miss

Elissa—then the call abruptly ended. “Elissa? Elissa?” Hadley called out, but the only

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stared at her phone, bewildered. What just happened? Elissa had reached out—yet barely spoken. The entire

grip on her phone tightened, a deep frown etching across her face. Something

have much interest in Elissa’s affairs, but he couldn’t ignore the worry etched on Hadley’s face. “Is your friend

because Eric was the only one here. Maybe it was because, despite everything, he had been showing her unexpected kindness lately. Or maybe—without realizing it—she had started seeing him as

blurted out, “Can you trace a number?” She unlocked her phone, quickly scrolling to the call log before showing