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

Chapter 1494:

Eric paused and then said, “I’ve got an idea that might help her warm up to me naturally. But I will need you to agree.”

Hadley turned to him, intrigued. “What’s your plan?”

“It’s just…” Eric looked straight into Hadley’s eyes—so clear, so warm, brimming with tenderness. “If we get married again, I’ll naturally become her father. As for everything that happened before, we can explain it to her when she’s older.”

Hadley paused at his words.

That… actually made sense.

Joy was still little. There was no need to burden her with things she couldn’t understand yet. If they got remarried and Joy grew up with Eric by her side, loving and protecting her, she’d come to see him as her dad. In time, she might not even remember that he wasn’t there during her earliest years.

That would be the gentlest path for her.

Hadley had never truly stopped to consider it—not seriously, anyway. Even with how far

said, giving her hand a gentle squeeze, his voice low

The question caught her off guard. She

your time. There’s

a gentle, comforting smile. “No rush. You don’t need to decide

he’d rushed things a bit today. Marriage wasn’t something to

first time they got married, it had all happened too quickly, without ceremony or

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then, Hadley received a message

the screen

said. “Her divorce just

out a slow breath.

how does she feel about Ernest

shaking her head. “I’m not