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

Chapter 1450:

Hadley had mentioned something vague about the situation—hadn’t it involved Locke somehow?

“Listen carefully…” Linda propelled her wheelchair forward, invading Elissa’s space as she deliberately enunciated each word, her revelation striking like physical blows.

“You bore his child… You are Locke’s biological mother!”

Elissa’s entire body seized, her expression vacant as though the words had failed to register in her consciousness.

“What… what are you saying?” she managed to whisper.

Elissa’s jaw slackened, her chest rising and falling with increasingly frantic breaths.

kindness made perfect sense. His apparent affection had materialized so mysteriously because it had roots elsewhere! A soundless, caustic laugh escaped Elissa’s lips. In this ruthless world, no gesture came without hidden

But Locke?

truly be her

rest upon her abdomen. Images of Locke’s rounded cheeks and luminous, joy-filled eyes

a precious, innocent creature have come from her

every micro-expression, savoring each flicker of devastation crossing her

you in the dark all this time?” She dipped her chin knowingly. “Logical, when you think about it. Your marriage remains intact, and Ernest—ever the gentleman—wouldn’t

the silence to stretch painfully before her

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Ernest genuinely love you for yourself, or is it just because of Locke—and you just the inconvenient package deal

accomplished. I’ve delivered my

wheelchair away, vindictive pleasure surged through