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

Chapter 1089:

The household staff sprang into action, rushing after her retreating figure.

She darted across the room like a terrified animal. Without warning, she changed direction and headed straight toward Hadley!

“Mrs. Scott!”

“Hadley, look out!”

Hadley stood frozen in shock. She barely managed to brace herself as the woman crashed into her. Her heart pounding, she asked, “Are you hurt?”

This distraught woman was truly Eric’s birth mother?

The staff surrounded them quickly. The woman struggled briefly against their reaching hands but then grew still when she focused on Hadley’s face.

A smile appeared on her lips. “It’s you. It’s really you!”

surprise. As she studied the woman’s face, a memory stirred

you are… I know

had collided with Hadley at the hospital several days

had rushed straight into

tightly, as if she had just found her savior.

why this woman trusted her so much despite meeting her only once. One look at her, though, and it was obvious that she

woman’s hand with reassuring firmness.

her voice dropped to a frightened whisper. “I don’t

hand a soft, calming pat. “I’ll stay right

even a second’s thought, the

?s․com, home to the

to Hadley tighter, inching closer until her body was

go.” Hadley held her hand and

the top, a maid stood ready, waiting to guide them to

get a comb. When she returned, she began untangling the woman’s messy, knotted hair. She then packed the hair behind

streaks of dirt on the woman’s face. It