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

Chapter 969:

“And now, when you’ve been caught red-handed, you pretend it was all some joke?” Hadley’s gaze narrowed. “Even you don’t believe that, do you?”

She then pointed directly at Eric. “And I know he doesn’t. Isn’t that right?”

“Shut up!” Linda snapped, her voice shaking. Her face had gone pale, and then flushed deep red, anger and humiliation crashing into each other all at once.

Hadley laughed, loud and unrestrained, the sound laced with satisfaction.

“Craving both Eric and Ernest—so fickle, so shameless. That’s you in a nutshell!”

“Hadley! That’s enough!”

Before Linda could completely unravel, Eric acted. In one swift motion, he wrapped his arms around Hadley’s waist and lifted her clean off the ground.

“Let’s go!” he growled, striding off with her in his arms.

legs kicked helplessly in the air. “Put

his height and strength, she was

to the quiet lobby outside the examination room. There, he finally set her

running,” he said, his voice

and teasing. “Your little sweetheart just confessed. Shouldn’t you be rushing

sharpened. “It was just a

joke?” Hadley’s smile vanished, her tone growing serious. “Trust me, women know each other. And as a woman,

𝕋𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒 g⍺𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝗍𝖊𝗅𝘀․𝖼𝗈𝗺

could finish, Eric closed

with something dangerously close to punishment. It

hurts…” Hadley groaned, frowning as she

fire, not a barrier. Time slipped—two minutes, five, maybe more. The world narrowed down to breath and skin

the time he finally let her

“Keep talking nonsense,” he murmured, voice thick. “Say one more word, and I swear, I

is it nonsense?” she snapped, clearly unfazed. “I was trying to

suspicion creeping into her