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

Chapter 1559:

Whether he was asleep or simply too broken to move, she couldn’t tell.

For a moment, she hovered uncertainly, unsure if she should wake him. Before she could decide, the door creaked open from within. The sudden shift caused Eric to collapse backward with a dull thud, hitting the floor hard.

“Mr. Scott!” the housemaid yelped in shock.

Hadley opened the door and flinched at the sight of Eric falling, her heart skipping a beat in surprise.

Fortunately, Eric’s eyes snapped open just as he began to collapse.

Hadley came to a halt, the tension in her shoulders loosening as she finally released the breath she’d been holding. She turned her face to the side, intentionally avoiding his gaze.

Without a word, she brushed past him and left.

Eric scrambled upright

the table, quietly eating with her eyes fixed on

disrupt the silence between them. He studied her face, lips parted slightly as if about to

and picked up. “It’s me. Go ahead.” The voice on the line spoke at length while Eric

murmured short replies,

Hadley. He hesitated

the bridal

frozen midair. She kept her head down, continuing to eat without

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a moment, he added, “I mentioned

few days earlier, he had proposed, and

help much with the wedding preparations, they

to

a foreigner who split his time between Srixby and France, so they had to plan around his frequent travels. But luckily,