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

Chapter 1392:

She insisted she would reveal everything when the moment felt right, when he had regained enough strength to bear it.

Nyla and Eric had acquiesced to her decision without protest. After all, the delicate matter existed primarily in the space between husband and wife.

Besides, the miracle had already occurred—Ernest had returned to them. That heartbreaking chapter had unfolded years earlier, and the future still promised countless opportunities for them to have more children. As months passed, both Nyla and Eric grew convinced that Linda should have broken her silence on the matter.

In reality, her lips had remained sealed.

Life had hurled one complication after another in their path.

First came Locke’s unexpected arrival, and then Elissa’s intrusion, followed by the earth-shattering revelation of Eric’s true identity. Thus, until Linda departed from Flynn Mansion, she had meticulously guarded this secret, burying it beneath layers of daily concerns. By Linda’s calculation, Ernest should have encountered this revelation only today, the truth delivered through Eric’s unwitting lips!

According to Eric’s account, he had assumed Ernest possessed this knowledge already, prompting him to reference it only in passing.

studied the contours of Ernest’s face with mounting apprehension. “Aren’t you

child she had lost before it ever

his voice a study in practiced neutrality. “I assumed

“Hmm?” She recoiled slightly.

manner of response

and merely because she might wish for silence, he

deepening suspicion. His composure was unnatural—almost

possibility took form. “Did you already know about this before Eric said anything

next

telling silence hung in the air—an

features hardened into a mask of

all along?” Her voice dropped to a dangerous whisper, each word carved from ice. “When?

though shielding himself from her

to dismiss this revelation as though it were