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

Chapter 984:

She couldn’t let Joy grow up the way she had.

She had to live. She must.

As a mother, she had no right to surrender—to abandon her child. “Joy, Joy…” Hadley repeated the name like a mantra, her voice cracking, tears streaming down her soot-streaked face.

Dragging herself across the floor, she reached for the gap in the door.

With trembling hands, she tried to widen it.

“Joy, Joy…” she whispered again.

But the iron door wouldn’t budge. She didn’t have the strength.

She screamed in frustration.

She was helpless.

I tried… but I’m so useless…” she cried out in

the opening with everything she had. Her nails cracked. Blood oozed from her fingertips. Then her palms split open, skin torn, red streaks

had just arrived. Firefighters had already sealed off the area and were

in!” one shouted. “The rescued are over by the ambulances—some have been taken

Hadley. She wasn’t among the crowd. She hadn’t been taken to

She was still inside.

wouldn’t let him

rest on g?l nov

well, but well enough. The Moran family leased space

couldn’t go through the front, he’d go

to

fury, he popped open his trunk. He grabbed a blanket and drenched it with water from several

over his head,

warehouse was vast. But he’d seen her kidnapped.

still alive. And maybe he

hope was

the smoke, dodging

hoses. The fire hadn’t grown worse—it