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

Chapter 1463:

Ernest blinked and sat up straighter. “Let’s go.”

“Okay.”

Elissa rushed to her desk and sank into her chair.

Her phone buzzed—another message from Ernest. “Elissa, I’ll be here. Whenever you’re ready to see me.”

She stared at the screen, speechless.

Closing her eyes, she felt a sharp ache in her chest. Her first impulse was to block his number. But then Locke’s face appeared in her mind.

She hesitated.

She couldn’t block Ernest. Whatever was between them now, Locke was still their child.

the phone down, she pressed a

there really been life

that morning, she picked the phone back up and sent

had turned gloomy. Rain had been falling

left the

stepped outside the building, she spotted Ernest’s

door opened, and he stepped out, umbrella in hand.

break stride. She walked past him—and his

arrived right on time.

rain, motionless for

said quietly, easing the car forward. “Should

in, closing the umbrella. “But

“Understood.”

car headed toward

stepped out and entered a small cafe that served