Too Late For Regret, the Billionaire Cherishes Me

Chapter 4

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shut, sealing Haskell's

ally collapsed. She sagged against the cool metal wall, ga

to have run dry, leaving only a

he biting midnight air of New York. The cold

inside, the door slamming shut behin

treaked woman with a suitcase, leaving one of Manhattan's most exclus

e. Her fingers stopped on a name in her c

resse

teady male voice answered. "Julis

Her voice was raw. "I've made a de

now sharp and serious. "Are you sure, Julissa? This isn't a

g no room for argument. "I don't want

e do?" Simon a

weet scent of that perfume filled her memory again. "Simon, help me. Draf

hed. "Okay, I understand. My team and I will get started fi

e. I'm i

o arrange a place

" She hesitated. "I... I think I'm

dress in a middle-class neighborhood in Que

he city a blur outside her window. Julissa saw none of it. He

ying Haskell Francis full of hope, beco

lla story of a girl from an ordinary family s

. Haskell had given her a life of unimaginable lu

d worked so hard, learning etiquette, art history, how to be the perfec

he wasn't good enough. It was that h

o-story house. It looked small, cramped, a

dragging her suitcase behind her. She stared

side. It wouldn't be a warm hug. It

or the baby inside her, she neede

breath and press

k nightgown, a facial mask plastered to her face. Her eyes took in Julissa

like that? Did you have a fight with Has

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Too Late For Regret, the Billionaire Cherishes Me

Edilaine Beckert Romance

“Julissa stared at the two pink lines on the pregnancy test. After two years of a freezing marriage to billionaire Haskell Francis, she hoped this baby would finally bridge the gap between them. But just as she planned to surprise him, a gossip news alert popped up on her phone. The photo showed her husband looking with unguarded tenderness at a five-year-old girl, while his "widowed childhood friend" Anastasia leaned intimately on his shoulder. When she called him that night, he coldly claimed he was busy with a contract. Yet, through the receiver, Julissa clearly heard a little girl's sweet voice call out, "Daddy!" When she finally confronted the "happy family" in a department store, Haskell didn't apologize. Instead, his bodyguards blocked her friend, and he forcefully dragged Julissa into his car to protect his precious public image. "I will not allow my marriage to become a laughingstock." He flatly refused her plea for a divorce. Worse, he coldly informed her that Anastasia and the little girl would be moving into their marital home next week. If she didn't accept it, he would completely destroy her father's company. Trapped in this suffocating nightmare, Julissa touched her still-flat stomach, her heart turning to solid ice. Looking at the cruel monster beside her, she knew her days of playing the obedient Mrs. Francis were over.”