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Chapter 123: Catherine's Secret
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 191: Ethan Comes Home
[POV: Yessica] (Location: Edinburgh)Judge Morrison's courtroom was exactly as Yessica remembered it. Same wood paneling, same state seal, same clock on the wall that ticked too loud in the silences.But this time, they were on the right side of the facts.Lewis sat beside her at the table, Harrison in the gallery behind them. Regina was already seated across the aisle with James Whitmore, her lawyer. She wasn't looking at anyone.Judge Morrison entered at nine sharp. Everyone stood, then sat.The judge opened the file, reviewed it briefly, and looked directly at Lewis. Her expression was different from any hearing before. Quieter. More careful."Mr. Sterling," she said. "I've reviewed the FCA's statement clearing you of fraud allegations, the police investigation into Ms. Hargrave and Ms. Catherine Sterling, and the forensic report establishing that you were the victim of a deliberate conspiracy." She paused. "I owe you an apology."The courtroom stayed completely still."My previo
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 190: He Came Home to Win
[POV: Lewis] (Location: Edinburgh)The Monday morning hearing took eleven minutes.Eleanor presented Catherine's prison motion to the bench at 9:02 AM. Judge Morrison read it once, set it down, and looked at Lewis's lawyer with an expression that said she already knew her ruling before anyone spoke."This motion has no legal standing," Eleanor said simply. "A criminal conviction does not extinguish parental rights. Ms. Sterling is attempting to leverage her own fraud conviction as a weapon in family court — the very conviction obtained through her deliberate attempt to manufacture the fraudulent circumstances she's now citing as grounds for termination."Judge Morrison didn't need to deliberate."Motion denied." The gavel came down at 9:13 AM. "Ms. Sterling's criminal conviction, filed from her current place of incarceration, is not sufficient grounds to modify this court's custody arrangement. Mr. Sterling's parental rights remain fully intact. This motion is dismissed with prejudi
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 189: Valentine's Day Without Armor
[POV: Yessica] (Location: Edinburgh)She found the photo by accident.Lewis's phone was face-up on the kitchen counter when she came downstairs at seven. He'd been scrolling through his camera roll the night before and left the app open. She didn't mean to look. She just did.It was a photo of the two of them from their first Edinburgh flat — the one with the drafty windows and the landlord who never fixed the heating. Her hair was shorter. Lewis was laughing at something off-camera. She was looking at him.She looked completely unguarded. No walls, no waiting for something to go wrong. Just a woman who'd let herself believe, finally, that she was safe with someone.She couldn't remember looking like that recently."You're staring at my phone." Lewis's voice came from the stairs. He was dressed but still barefoot, holding his shoes."You left it open." She held it up. "Who took this?"He looked at the photo, then at her face. "Pippa. Last November. You don't remember?""I remember t
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 188: She Confessed Everything
[POV: Yessica] (Location: Edinburgh — Sterling Industries)Sienna's question hung in the air like a dare."Tell me. What exactly do you think you know?"She was smiling. Leaning back in her chair like she'd already won. Like this was theater staged for her entertainment and Lewis was the one who'd walked into the trap.Yessica kept her hands still in her lap. The recording pen was on the table between them. Lewis's phone was in his jacket pocket, audio running. Every second of this was being captured.Lewis didn't rush. He pulled a chair out, sat down across from Sienna, and let the silence stretch until her smile started to look like effort."I know about the backdoor malware installed on my old laptop before it was donated to charity," he said. "I know it gave you remote access to my company systems for eight months. I know about the Singapore shell company registered to your holdings that was used to route the transfers."Sienna's expression didn't crack. But something shifted be
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 187: The Trap
[POV: Lewis] (Location: Edinburgh)The forensics firm arrived Tuesday afternoon.David Nguyen, CyberTrace Solutions. Former MI5, sharp eyes, the kind of stillness that meant he missed nothing. He set up across the dining room table — multiple laptops, external drives, equipment Lewis couldn't name — and got to work without small talk."I need complete access," David said. "Personal devices, company systems, financial records, authorization logs. Everything."Lewis handed over all of it. Total transparency was the only move when you had nothing to hide."How long?" Yessica asked."Depends on what I find. But if the signatures were forged, I'll find it."The updates came daily. Wednesday: anomaly in authorization timestamps. Thursday: tracing IP addresses from fraudulent transactions. Friday: analyzing digital signature patterns for inconsistencies. Each update was technical and brief, and each one made Lewis feel something he hadn't felt in two weeks.Hope.Day eight, David called an
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 186: The Playground Incident
[POV: Regina] (Location: Edinburgh, Inverleith Park)Regina wasn't supposed to be at Inverleith Park on Saturday afternoon.Ethan was with Lewis this weekend. Court-ordered, scheduled to the hour. She knew that. Which was exactly why she hadn't thought twice about walking through the park on the way to dinner with David.Edinburgh was full of parks. The odds of running into them were—She saw them before they saw her.Lewis and Yessica on a bench near the climbing frames. Ethan running in circles with Rose, who was barely keeping up on her toddler legs but shrieking with delight anyway.Regina's first instinct was to turn around. Walk the other direction before anyone looked up.She didn't.Ethan fell. It wasn't dramatic — just a tumble in the woodchips, the kind that happened fifty times in any playground visit. He sat there for half a second, palm scraped, processing whether or not this required tears.Regina tensed.Lewis was already there. Kneeling in the woodchips, not rushing,
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