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

Chapter 921:

“Did you?” Hadley responded with a warm smile. “Well, I’m here now, and I missed you so much too.”

“Mommy.” Joy looked up with hopeful eyes. “Mr. Flynn didn’t come. He promised but he didn’t show up. He’s a bad guy!”

Hearing this, Hadley felt a pang in her heart…

“No, sweetheart.” Hadley settled onto the couch with Joy cradled in her arms and soothed her gently. “He was here last night. You were sleeping so deeply, he didn’t want to disturb you.”

“Yes,” Elissa added. “That’s true.”

“Oh, really?” Joy’s face fell slightly. “I missed it because I fell asleep…”

To lift her daughter’s spirits, Hadley grabbed her phone and showed her a video from the previous night. “Look, Joy. Here he is holding you last night, and look, he even set off fireworks just for you.”

“Wow…” As Joy watched the video, her face lit up with a delighted laugh. “Haha! Really! Joy… that’s my name!”

her daughter’s little head. “He did all this just for

sparkled with happiness as she snuggled closer into her mother’s embrace.

really does,” Hadley responded, her

hospital, Eric’s condition was stable, but he showed

softly, “You just landed in Srixby last night. You must be exhausted from your

Linda shook

gotten through tough times together since we were children, and this time

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“Grandma doesn’t know about any of this yet. You should head back to avoid making her suspicious. Stay with her

fragile, and they had chosen not to tell her about

the worry. It wouldn’t

his brother, lying still on the hospital bed. “We can’t predict when Eric will wake up. We can’t both be here all the time. We

in his suggestion and nodded.

“Alright.”

she stood to leave, Linda paused and suddenly turned to Ernest. “I rushed back and didn’t get the