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

Chapter 1068:

Before she could finish, Eric’s hold on her chin grew fierce, making her flinch in pain.

“Don’t dress it up so prettily! Be straight with me! You’re ready to risk Joy’s safety and insist on leaving me—is it because of my background? Because I’m no longer a Flynn?”

Tears welled in Eric’s shadowed eyes, his voice quivering with anguish. “Is it because I’m a fraud in your eyes, someone you now deem unworthy?”

His words roared with despair and fragility.

Hadley’s brow furrowed as Eric’s pain lay bare before her.

If admitting it would finally make him let go, perhaps it was worth it.

She drew a deep breath and nodded. “Yes, that’s it.”

The words had barely escaped when Hadley gasped in agony, her jaw throbbing as if fractured under Eric’s grasp.

grief and torment. His gaze burned with unrelenting intensity.

He… was

Eric’s laugh was raw and bitter. “This is how you treat me? How could you betray

for him, Eric had clung to the notion that she stood apart from others, that she wouldn’t despise him and walk away because he

How mistaken he was!

arms fell limp, releasing her. “Go,” he

faltered, uncertain if she had heard him right.

go!” Eric’s voice thundered as he raised his head, his glare piercing. “Get out

now gleamed with a cold, hollow

tears she had seen in

she turned and hastened toward the

the door handle, an unbidden urge made her pause and glance back. Softly, she said, “Take

those final words,

door clicked shut, and a tempest

the table, sending the red

enough. The anguish