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.”

eyebrows knitting together as rage

her wrist like iron. “Refuse me all you want—withhold

are entirely my affair. You forfeited any right to

confrontation, Elissa rotated her captive wrist, desperate to escape his

voice sliced through the air. “He cannot be part of

vise-like grip, fury blazing in his gaze. “Must I refresh your memory? That man brutalized you

deeper into Elissa’s flesh as he yanked her

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your resentment toward me to paint him as some misunderstood saint… He remains both abuser and

forehead as she shook her

though physically struck, his

silence, Elissa wrenched her arm free, flung those