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 gaze burned with unrelenting intensity. “Well played!” His bloodshot eyes glistened with tears that spilled

He… was

was raw and bitter. “This is how you treat me? How could you betray me like this? I thought… I thought…” He had believed Hadley

clung to the notion that she stood apart from others, that

How mistaken he was!

releasing her. “Go,”

faltered, uncertain if she had heard him right.

raised his head, his glare piercing. “Get out

warm and wet, now gleamed

as if the tears she had seen in Eric’s eyes

she turned and hastened toward the

pause and glance back. Softly, she said,

final words, she

shut, and a tempest of

as he upended the table, sending the red diamond ring skittering across the floor. The

wasn’t enough. The anguish clawed at him,