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.

his own grief and torment. His gaze

He…

you treat me? How could you betray me like this? I thought… I thought…”

to the notion that she stood apart from others, that she wouldn’t despise him and walk

How mistaken he was!

limp, releasing her. “Go,” he whispered,

she

he raised his head, his glare piercing. “Get

once warm and wet, now gleamed with a

the tears she had seen in Eric’s eyes moments ago were merely a trick

bag tightly, she turned and hastened

as her hand touched the door handle, an unbidden urge made her pause and glance back. Softly, she said, “Take care of yourself, for Joy’s

final words, she

and a tempest of sound

echoed as he upended the table, sending the red diamond ring skittering across the

it wasn’t enough. The