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

Chapter 1568:

No matter what Linda did, the weight of what she had once given would always tip the scale. The Flynn brothers might confront her, but they would never truly hold her accountable.

“I’m sorry, Hadley,” Ernest said softly, the apology almost lost beneath his sigh. “Going forward, I’ll take full responsibility for anything related to Linda. I want you and Eric to focus on your own lives—no more interference from her.”

Rising to his feet, he took a step toward her. “Hadley,” he said, looking her straight in the eye. “Those four years you suffered… I can never undo them. But I can say this—I’m sorry. Deeply, truly sorry.”

Without another word, Ernest lowered his head and bowed. It was a silent gesture, heavy with guilt, failure, and regret.

“No, Ernest!” Hadley shot to her feet, rushing forward to steady him. “Please don’t do that!”

Having grown up under the Flynn family’s roof, she couldn’t accept such a formal apology, not from him.

in need financially… but when you and Eric marry, the Flynn family will still

she whispered, her voice cracking as tears spilled freely down

“If this leads to a split between you and Eric… and if something happens to him because of it, I’ll never be able to live

flashed in his mind, and his shoulders slumped with

comes back with more, don’t give her the satisfaction of believing a single word. Not one word.

fantastic tales on

doors burst open just as

Ernest and Hadley froze and rushed to meet him. “Please

need to panic. Mr. Scott is safe for

vessels to dilate,” the doctor said, eyeing them carefully. “I don’t know what led to it, but he can’t go through

were lucky. There wasn’t any internal bleeding, but luck won’t always be on