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

Chapter 1468:

Elissa snapped her head up to glare at him. “Let go of me.”

“Oh, I will.” His breath came in heavy bursts, betraying the storm inside him. His gaze bore into her. “But first, you are going to explain. Why were you meeting your ex-husband?”

Elissa gave a humorless laugh, glancing toward the café. “Isn’t it obvious? We were having dinner together.”

“Dinner?”

Ernest’s face darkened further, his tone icy and hard. “Since when does dinner come with hugs? And the way you two were staring into each other’s eyes—do you take me for a fool?”

Ernest’s features were contorted with raw emotion. His expression mirrored the betrayal of a husband discovering his wife entwined with another man. A bitter laugh escaped Elissa’s lips—equal parts fury and incredulity—as she refused to defend herself. “You witnessed it. Yes, I embraced him. So what? This hardly concerns you.”

thundered, his eyebrows knitting together as rage emanated from every

like iron. “Refuse me all you want—withhold your

entirely my affair. You forfeited any right to have

confrontation, Elissa rotated her captive

said NO!” His voice sliced through the air. “He cannot be

“Must I refresh your memory? That man brutalized you repeatedly. Are you willing

fingers dug deeper into Elissa’s flesh as he yanked her toward him, eliminating the distance between

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him as some misunderstood saint… He

lines creased Elissa’s forehead as she shook her head with deliberate slowness.

as though physically struck, his eyes

remove yourself from my existence completely!” Seizing the moment of his stunned silence, Elissa wrenched