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

Chapter 866:

Hadley tucked her phone away, slipped into a coat, and stepped outside.

“Hadley, over here!” Eric stood by his car door, giving her a small wave. With no other destination in mind, they found themselves at the same dessert shop as yesterday.

“What’ll you have to drink?”

“Lemon water.”

“Coming right up.”

Today, Hadley carried herself with a newfound calm compared to the storm of the previous day.

Eric fetched their drinks and slid hers across the table. “Here, lemon water.”

“Thank you.” Hadley cradled the glass, sipping delicately.

truths between them needed

instance, the quiet ease of sitting together now—it

to specialists for Joy, searching for someone with real expertise in this

eyes shimmered with unshed tears. Joy was

hand instinctively found Hadley’s, warm and steady. “There are cases of full recoveries from aplastic anemia—Joy can be one of them. Everything I failed to give her at the start, I’ll pour into making it right

slipped her hand free, her fine lashes quivering faintly.

Eric’s expression grew shadowed as he pulled his hand back, toying with the cup in

𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 ⓘ𝓷 gⱯ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀⧼𝖼𝗈𝗺

I… spend

getting at? They both understood it wasn’t a casual

before; this

faintly, her response calm and rehearsed. “Eric, Joy and I have built our life together. It’s just us in

the answer he’d braced

head, a sour ache settling in his chest. “I get

absent for every moment of Joy’s life so far. It

water, then continued, “Keep Joy a secret from Nyla, please.” Nyla prized