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

Chapter 892:

“Care for you?” she hissed under her breath. “Didn’t you figure that out already? If it weren’t for Joy, would I even be near someone who ditched me four years ago?”

Her words hit Eric like a sledgehammer, leaving him stock-still, his face blank.

Hadley shoved him off in the stunned pause and twisted toward the door.

“Hadley!”

He lunged forward, wrapping his arms around her from behind, crossing them over her chest. His voice dropped, raw and pleading. “What do you want from me? I didn’t care back then! I treated you like dirt! But I can’t rewrite history. Tell me—what can I do to make it right?”

How could he have seen this coming all those years ago?

Hadley’s spine went rigid. She stared blankly through the windshield, her tone icy. “Then let’s leave it behind us.”

Her eyes fluttered shut, a memory flickering—her boarding that lonely flight to Blathe four years prior…

we had died back then. It’s been over between us

dropping Hadley off, the evening was still young. Unwilling to be alone, Eric steered toward Poseidon’s Realm. To

tied up?” Eric asked

Said something’s

off guard. “Something wrong? Does he

he’ll holler.” He

“Let’s go.”

f𝑜𝓇m 𝒽𝒶𝓁𝑑

not with the Myers

latched onto his arm,

Aunt Wilma,” Marshall assured her with a nod. “I’ll

as she led him up. “I can’t figure out why he’s so dead-set on heading overseas!” As she spoke, they reached the study door, and she knocked. “Denver, it’s me—and your

in,” Denver’s crisp voice

the door open to reveal a cluttered room, books strewn

all this?” Wilma frowned. “Your cousin’s here, and it’s