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

But Locke?

truly

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

precious, innocent creature have come from her without

savoring each flicker of devastation

throat. “My, my, that expression says everything. Truly clueless, aren’t you? Ernest has kept you in the dark all this time?” She dipped her chin knowingly. “Logical, when you think about it. Your marriage remains

the silence to stretch painfully before her smile crystallized into something

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this—does Ernest genuinely love you for yourself, or is it just because of Locke—and

mission is accomplished. I’ve delivered my message, so I’ll take my

pivoted her wheelchair away, vindictive