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!”

As she studied the woman’s

you are… I know

woman who had collided

today, she had rushed straight into Hadley without warning or

The woman gripped Hadley’s hand tightly, as if she had just found her savior. “We’ve met

She couldn’t understand why this woman trusted her so much despite meeting

didn’t pull away. She held the woman’s hand with reassuring firmness. “Yes, we’ve met again. Can you tell me

her voice dropped to a frightened

a

even a second’s thought, the woman nodded

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Hadley tighter, inching closer until her

go.” Hadley held her hand and slowly

maid stood ready, waiting to

began untangling the woman’s messy, knotted hair. She then packed the hair behind her head and wove it into a neat

streaks of dirt on the woman’s face. It wasn’t clear how she’d gotten so