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

Chapter 1469:

How could that be?

Elissa blinked in confusion, unease settling in her stomach. When had her mother switched numbers? Yet no notification of this change had reached her. Reflecting on their estrangement, Elissa realized months—perhaps even longer—had passed since their last conversation.

Throughout her period of blindness, she had switched phone numbers twice to escape Robin’s harassment.

In her desperate flight from Robin, she had neglected to update her mother with her new contact details. Perhaps her mother had made similar changes during that chaotic period?

The realization struck her—they had completely lost their connection to one another.

A flicker of hope surfaced as Elissa recalled she still possessed her mother’s email address.

if her mother’s old email account was still active, but it

desperate message to her mother with the fervent

her pregnancy and what truly

her

her mother, an undeniable certainty had crystallized

her baby had perished before she gave birth now revealed itself as a calculated

son—her beautiful boy—had been breathing, thriving, and growing all this

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The name escaped Elissa’s lips like a sacred incantation. She visualized Locke’s pillowy cheeks and those distinctive crescent-moon eyes that

inexplicable pull she’d always felt toward Locke suddenly made perfect sense—the primal, unbreakable connection between

wasn’t conceived with the man she had once believed was her soul

from her workplace, Ernest appeared in front