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

Chapter 852:

Ernest blinked, thrown off. “Why would you think that?”

“It must be true!” Locke sniffled, tears threatening to spill again. “Mommy never comes to see me!”

He turned over, his back now facing Ernest. He was pouting, clearly hurt.

Ernest opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out.

How could he make his son understand without breaking his heart?

Did Elissa love Locke? Ernest honestly didn’t know.

People always said a mother’s love was instinctive. But what Elissa had with Locke… was different. She hadn’t chosen to have him. And after he was born, she left him behind. Maybe, just maybe, she didn’t love him.

And that, Ernest thought bitterly, was on him.

He was Locke’s father as well as the root of Elissa’s worst nightmare.

had pouted himself

his temples, then leaned down to

in his sleep, his voice soft and

it clearly. Locke definitely missed

into the sanatorium, Hadley came by to

nice

to Mr.

a tangerine. The soft citrus scent filled

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“Hadley.”

“Yeah?”

contacted you

paused, handing half of the

if Eric’s silence was a blessing

back from Laventown by now, right?” she

Maybe.” Hadley

stepped off the plane, sneezing into

offering a coat. “Don’t let a