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?

things considered, Cade held a professorship at the University of

wealth. But when held up

blinked, pulling herself out of her thoughts, and, still clutching Joy’s cup, slipped quietly out of

money if I can’t even choose who I marry? If that’s

staying out of it. It’s your mess now,

that evening, after dinner, walking back toward the south wing, Hadley kept her eyes on the ground, her

chapters

had noticed. Even at dinner, she

present, he

her in his arms, his lips grazing her cheek.

gaze. “Have you ever thought about marrying someone who truly belongs to your

moment, his

immediately. “You heard what my father

once. “And

word escaped him