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.

idea if her mother’s old email account

composing a desperate message to her

her

Elissa set her phone aside with

mother, an undeniable certainty had crystallized in her mind:

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

beautiful boy—had been breathing,

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pillowy cheeks and those distinctive crescent-moon eyes that appeared whenever his face lit up

felt toward Locke suddenly made perfect sense—the primal, unbreakable connection between mother and child had been quietly

the man she had once believed was her soul mate. “Ernest Flynn,” she whispered, his name tasting bitter on

Elissa emerged exhausted from her workplace, Ernest appeared in front of her