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 to

rubbed his temples, then leaned down to tuck the

mumbled in his sleep, his

it

sanatorium, Hadley came by

nice here. Peaceful,

thanks to

peeling a tangerine. The soft citrus scent filled

??????

“Hadley.”

“Yeah?”

contacted you

the tangerine

sighed to herself. She couldn’t tell if Eric’s silence

back from Laventown by now, right?” she

sure. Maybe.” Hadley

Eric stepped off the plane, sneezing into his hand and wiping

a coat. “Don’t let a cold