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

Chapter 1555:

She pointed at herself.

“I mean, look—I survived, right? Still standing. Isn’t that enough?”

Her chest tightened with pain. The words nearly caught in her throat. “So that’s it? We just forget it ever happened?”

“No, that’s not it…” Eric said, panic rising. “I didn’t say anything because—”

Hadley cut him off, her voice shaking. “Because you wanted to protect Linda, right?” A broken laugh escaped her lips, her eyes glistening with unshed tears.

She was laughing at him… but mostly at herself.

“Do you know how I kept myself from falling apart? Because you were always kind to me. Because you treated Joy so well, like you really care.”

“I do!” Eric insisted, reaching for her hand.

Because if he did, he’d

gaze, red-rimmed and unwavering, met his. “But you did know. And you chose

“That’s not true…”

in disbelief. “Don’t lie to me, Eric. The truth is right here, staring us both in the face. If Linda hadn’t told me, would you have kept the lie

He tried to justify himself. “There was

tell me—if that’s not indifference, what

didn’t choose silence to protect Linda—it was because

explanation rang

his to tell. Ernest had confided in no one—not

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a low, humorless laugh. “You won’t say,

breath, as if her spirit had been drained from

reached for her