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.

seemed unaware of her pain, lost in his own grief and torment. His gaze burned with unrelenting intensity. “Well played!” His bloodshot eyes

He… was

me? How could you betray me like

Eric had clung to the notion that she stood apart from others, that she wouldn’t despise him

How mistaken he was!

her. “Go,” he whispered, his voice

she had heard

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

now gleamed with a

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

tightly, she turned

urge made her pause and glance back. Softly,

words, she

shut, and a tempest

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

wasn’t enough. The anguish clawed at him,