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.

off guard. Her legs kicked helplessly in the air. “Put

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far—just to the quiet lobby outside the examination room. There, he

running,” he said, his voice low. “You know you

sweetheart just confessed. Shouldn’t you be rushing back to her

voice sharpened. “It was just

vanished, her tone growing serious. “Trust me, women know each other. And as a woman, I’m telling you that wasn’t a

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she could finish, Eric closed the

kiss hit like a storm—deep, consuming, edged with something dangerously close to punishment. It wasn’t gentle. It simply

hurts…” Hadley groaned, frowning as

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

the time he finally let her go,

against her swollen lip. “Keep talking nonsense,” he

it nonsense?” she snapped, clearly unfazed. “I was trying to have a serious

suspicion creeping