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

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who had collided with Hadley at the

rushed straight into Hadley without

I know you. You’re a good person…” The woman gripped Hadley’s hand tightly, as if she had just

trusted her so much

slow nod and didn’t pull away. She held the woman’s hand with reassuring

wary glance around, and her voice dropped to a frightened whisper. “I

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

even a second’s thought, the woman

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inching closer until her body was pressed against

go.” Hadley held her hand and

the top, a maid stood ready, waiting to

comb. When she returned, she began untangling the woman’s messy, knotted

the woman’s face. It wasn’t clear how she’d