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

Chapter 1266:

But he didn’t respond. He just turned and walked away without looking back.

With bodyguards blocking the path, Hadley couldn’t get far.

“Miss Pearson, could you please wait here?”

“Hadley!” Eric quickly caught up. “Don’t be upset! There are still details we need to sort out… Remy and Linda are giving different accounts. We can’t say for sure that Remy isn’t lying, right?”

“Is that so?” Hadley turned to him, a faint smile tugging at her lips.

“Then tell me, why would Remy want to frame her?”

“We won’t know until we investigate—”

“There’s no need.” Hadley took a shallow breath and looked away. “What’s the point? Even if she’s proved guilty, I can’t do anything about it. So, let’s just leave it. There’s nothing worth digging into.”

“Hadley…” Eric felt a pang in his heart.

that Hadley was deeply

trying to protect her—” he reasoned,

Mr. Scott?” With the Scott family’s bodyguards around, she wouldn’t be able to leave without Eric’s permission. And truthfully, she did

nodding.

Silver Villas, they drove back to Millland

of them spoke during

the window, eyes shut tightly. She could feel

car pulled up outside the building. Eric walked her up

still upset. Before leaving, he said quietly, “I won’t let this

he said so, she would wait. She wanted to see who would be proved wrong

Lɒtєѕτ чhɒρτєrѕ ιn gɑl?οvєlѕ.сo?

the truth and have something concrete, let’s not see each other,” she

froze. “I’ll look into it right

and Linda first met and get proof of any financial transactions

“Yes, Mr. Scott.”

later, Eric