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

Chapter 1665:

“How could such cruelty befall you… and subsequently destroy me?”

The devastating truth she had never shared hung between them: that night, the invisible hand that had drugged Ernest had not stopped there—Linda, too, had fallen victim to the same sinister plot!

At this crucial juncture, Eric’s voice emerged from the periphery, injecting a new perspective into the emotionally charged atmosphere.

“That particular evening,” Eric clarified with careful precision, “Ernest was engaged in negotiations with several key representatives from MK Capital.”

“MK Capital?” The name struck Linda like an electrical current, causing her body to stiffen instantaneously.

Though the specifics of MK Capital remained a mystery to her, the memory of Ernest mentioning his business appointment there that evening resurfaced with sudden clarity in her mind.

for those forty-eight hours and yearning for additional moments in Ernest’s company,

incident had featured an opulent ball—all

and forging connections, while Linda drifted through the periphery of the

Linda’s limbs and her vision blurred at the

with increasing desperation, she discovered Ernest

had made her unsteady way toward his hotel suite, clinging

imagination begins

finding sanctuary in Ernest’s quarters, she had unwittingly stumbled into the lavish bridal suite belonging to Robin and

on the unfamiliar masculine profile slumbering beside her, a sickening wave of dissociation crashed over her, as though she were observing the calamity from somewhere outside her own

trembling hands and fled the scene before her unknown companion