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

Chapter 1614:

But Eric only let out a short, derisive breath. “Not a chance. I’m not throwing myself on that altar.”

“You…” Ferris faltered, but then laughed—dry and worn thin. “Is that really what you think I meant?”

By the door, Hadley lingered in silence, one hand wrapped around Joy’s water cup.

She’d stepped in to refill it and, without intending to, caught the sharp edges of Ferris and Eric’s exchange.

Could it be more ironic?

She often felt wronged in this relationship.

Yet the Scott family saw their son as the victim.

Truthfully, a man with Eric’s pedigree was expected to marry someone equally prominent—someone who could elevate his standing.

And Hadley?

professorship at the University of Srixby, and

when held up against the Scotts, they

of her thoughts, and, still clutching Joy’s

lecture. What’s the point of all that money if I can’t even choose who I marry? If that’s how this family works, someone

staying out of it. It’s your

wing, Hadley kept her eyes on the ground, her silence

more chapters on

at dinner, she had withdrawn

Joy present, he hadn’t

wrapped her in his arms, his lips grazing

thought about marrying someone

moment, his

caught on immediately. “You heard what my

She nodded once. “And

him