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?”

expelled a heavy breath as his shoulders sagged with the weight

concealed for years now stood exposed

Linda’s eyes flooded with crimson as blood vessels burst from emotion, her voice hollowed by the revelation.

as though the simple gesture might shatter what

evening, a crucial meeting with MK Capital’s executive board had been meticulously arranged—a potential partnership

tactics of corporate espionage, deploying pharmaceuticals rather than legitimate

Capital’s notoriously selective leadership. Ernest’s unexplained absence would

stories available on

absence from the negotiating table had

could never have anticipated was how their calculated scheme would spiral beyond their intentions, leaving a trail of broken

course, even had they been confronted with the collateral damage they’d inflicted, such ruthless operatives