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

Chapter 1666:

The compulsion to flee had overwhelmed all else, driving her to abandon the hotel with such precipitous haste that she hadn’t even left a whispered explanation for Ernest.

The bitter irony that now twisted like a knife in her gut was that years later, Ernest would confess that during those same fateful hours when her world had imploded… he had unknowingly shared an intimate encounter with Elissa! The parallel violation of their trust and bodies had occurred simultaneously under the same roof, orchestrated by unseen hands!

The horrifying revelation yanked Linda’s thoughts back to the present moment with brutal force.

Linda leveled a penetrating gaze at Ernest, her voice wavering between accusation and desperate hope.

“That night, my violation—was I merely collateral damage in someone’s vendetta against you?”

as his shoulders sagged with the

concealed for years now stood exposed between them, raw

blood vessels burst from emotion, her voice hollowed by the revelation. “Your business rivals who orchestrated

the simple gesture might shatter

meeting with MK Capital’s executive board had been meticulously

the darkest tactics of corporate espionage, deploying pharmaceuticals rather than legitimate business strategies to

to court MK Capital’s notoriously selective leadership. Ernest’s unexplained absence would

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end, their machinations succeeded with devastating precision. Ernest’s conspicuous absence from the negotiating table had cost him the partnership, diverting millions to

scheme would spiral beyond their intentions, leaving a trail of broken lives in its wake, including an innocent newlywed couple

been confronted with the collateral damage they’d inflicted, such ruthless operatives would have regarded human suffering as an acceptable cost