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Chapter 124: The Strategy Room
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 222: Asset Confirmed
[POV: Yessica] (Location: Edinburgh)Lewis's face went completely still.That was always the tell. Not the jaw, not the hands — the eyes going flat and the rest of him going quiet in a way that meant something very controlled was happening underneath."Thank you, Eleanor," he said. "Don't tell anyone else yet."He ended the call.Hayes looked between them, reading the room with the trained efficiency of someone who assessed threat levels for a living. "Do you need a moment?""Yes," Yessica said.Hayes took his laptop to the hallway without being asked.Yessica looked at Lewis. "Say what you're thinking.""I'm thinking she sat in this kitchen. She sat in Eleanor's conference room. She gave us names, documents, a timeline — and the whole time she was reporting every piece of it back to Neil Brennan." His voice was precise and cold. "I'm thinking we used her testimony as the foundation of our response to Catherine's welfare filing. I'm thinking she knew Victoria Brennan was outside our
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 221: The One Who Inherited It
[POV: Lewis] (Location: Edinburgh)McAllister was at the house by eight.She came without calling first, which told Lewis everything about how seriously she was taking the previous night's message before she said a word."Six weeks," she said, sitting at the kitchen table. "Catherine's communications were clean for the full six weeks prior to the prison review. No calls to network members, no mail to known contacts, nothing through her approved visitor list that we can connect to operational instructions.""So she built the network, then handed it to someone," Lewis said."That's the most likely interpretation, yes." McAllister set a folder on the table. "Before her communications were restricted, Catherine made twelve personal calls. Four to her solicitor — legitimate, documented. Three to Harrison, which he confirmed. Two to a charity she'd been associated with." A pause. "And three to a number registered to a private consultancy in Edinburgh."She slid a printed page across the t
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 220: Everything Changes Tonight
[POV: Lewis] (Location: Edinburgh)Lewis was already moving."Stay here," he said to Yessica — not a request — and crossed the hallway in four steps, positioning himself between the staircase and the front door.McAllister was still on the line. He heard her issuing instructions before the door fully opened.The woman who stepped inside was not what he expected. Mid-forties, slight, wearing a rain jacket and carrying nothing in her hands. She stopped the moment she saw him.Her face did something complicated. Not aggression. Not the cool calculation of someone executing a plan. Something closer to a person who had driven to a destination and arrived only to understand, too late, that they'd made a terrible mistake."Mr. Sterling," she said."Put your hands where I can see them."She raised both hands immediately. "I'm not armed. I'm not here to do anything." Her voice shook slightly. "I just — I needed to see you in person. I needed you to know that I've been trying to get out of th
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 219: The One We Missed
[POV: Yessica] (Location: Edinburgh)Lewis called McAllister before Yessica had finished reading the message twice."Another number," he said when she answered. "Same pattern, different sender. Forward incoming now."He took Yessica's phone and sent the screenshot while McAllister was still on the line. The call lasted four minutes. When it ended, he set both phones on the table and looked at Yessica with the specific expression she'd learned to read as controlled alarm — the version where the alarm was real but the control was a decision, not a reflex."She's sending a unit," he said. "She wants you to reply.""Reply.""With a message she'll draft. Keep them talking long enough to trace the number." He paused. "She says it's your call. You don't have to."Yessica thought about it for approximately three seconds."Tell her to send the draft."McAllister's text arrived in two minutes. Simple, direct, designed to sound like genuine fear rather than a tactical response. Yessica read it
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 218: Inside the Chain
[POV: Lewis] (Location: Edinburgh)The missing page meant someone with access to the evidence chain had protected Catherine's connection to Victoria Brennan.Lewis sat with that for the length of time it took Eleanor to finish explaining the implications. Not long. Eleanor was concise when things were serious."The chain of custody runs from Harrison, who provided the address book, to the prosecution solicitor who catalogued it, to the court archive." She was in her office; he could hear papers moving. "The discrepancy was discovered because Harrison's handwritten inventory — he listed the contents when he handed it over — references the Brennan entries. The copy submitted to court is missing that page. The gap occurs somewhere between Harrison's handoff and the archive submission.""Who had access in that window?""Two people. The prosecution solicitor and his junior associate." A pause. "I've already pulled the associate's background. Nothing flagged immediately. The solicitor him
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 217: The Letter C
[POV: Yessica] (Location: Edinburgh)Lewis repeated what McAllister had said.Yessica sat with it for a moment."She's in federal prison," she said. "They restrict outgoing communications. Phone calls are monitored, mail is screened, visits are logged.""They restrict them. They don't make them impossible." Lewis set his phone on the counter. "Catherine has had seventeen months inside to understand exactly what the monitoring looks like and how to work around the edges of it.""Victoria Brennan wouldn't be on Catherine's approved visitor list.""She doesn't have to be. Approved visitors can pass messages. A letter sent to a solicitor, forwarded through a personal contact, arriving without Catherine's return address." He sat down. "We built our entire fraud case on the principle that Catherine is methodical and works through intermediaries. This is the same pattern."Yessica thought about that notebook. Dates and times and Yessica's running route written in someone else's handwriting
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 59 — Admitted
POV: Yessica | Location: Royal Infirmary, EdinburghThe maternity unit was on the fourth floor.Lewis checked her in at the desk while she stood beside him and let him handle the administrative part because her hands had started shaking in the lift and she'd put them in her pockets so no one would
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 58 — Monday
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghShe didn't sleep Sunday night.Not because of the itching — though it was worse, a persistent heat across both palms that no position relieved. Not because of Claire, who was active and present and jabbing at intervals. But because her body knew, the way bodies kn
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 57 — Dr. Hargreaves
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghThe Royal Infirmary was twenty minutes from Victoria Street.Lewis drove her. He'd hired a car the day before — she hadn't asked why, but now she understood it was because he'd anticipated that there would be mornings when walking to Marchmont Road wasn't the righ
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 56 — Thursday Numbers
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghAgnes's dinner on Sunday had been quiet and warm and exactly what all three of them needed without anyone saying so directly.Lewis had eaten two helpings of everything Agnes put in front of him, which Agnes noted with the satisfaction of a woman whose cooking had
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