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

Chapter 1019:

“Ha-ha-ha!” Linda let out a jagged laugh. “I’m going to spend the rest of my life lying here like a useless log! Ha-ha…”

Her laughter sliced through the room, sharp and painful. Each sound felt like a knife, cutting straight into Eric’s chest.

“Tell me the doctor was mistaken, wasn’t he?” Linda’s voice trembled as she clutched Eric’s collar with a fierce grip. Her eyes blazed with a volatile mix of desperation and fury. “He is just a clueless fraud, isn’t he?”

Eric’s lips tightened into a thin line, his silence deafening.

Earlier that day, during Linda’s medical evaluation, the doctor had noted troubling signs—diminished sensation and sluggish reflexes in her lower body. His words still echoed in Linda’s mind, heavy and unyielding.

“Mr. Flynn, Miss Harris sustained damage to the muscles and nerves in her lower back from the car accident. I’m afraid her legs may never function as they once did.”

“What does that mean?” Linda had pressed, her voice barely a whisper.

“Paralysis.”

single word shattered Linda, plunging

it ignited a firestorm of guilt and

something! Speak, damn

waited for a response that never came. Her emotions spiraled, her red-rimmed eyes quivering with

shell of who I was! What’s the point of going

slackened, and she sagged toward the

voice was sharp with

thrashing against Eric. Eric caught her just in time,

at the nurse, his brow

hub for

away!” The nurse scurried

nurse returned with the doctor in

a sedative,” the doctor

“Understood,” the nurse replied.

cries grew frantic as Eric and

and slowly, the room fell into an