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Chapter 125: The Father's Call
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 275: James Knew Everything
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Post-Graduation Restaurant]The restaurant was loud with celebration.Three long tables pushed together, the family spread across them — Ethan and Grace at the far end conducting some kind of competition involving bread rolls, Moira and Theron sharing a bottle of wine, Regina and David across from Yessica, Claire at the center of it all still wearing her graduation gown because Grace had asked her not to take it off yet.Lewis sat at the table and watched his daughter laugh and thought: not yet. Not this table. Not this hour.Eleanor's message was still on his phone.James Morton Junior knew everything. The acquisition plan, his father's litigation strategy, the leverage play against Sterling Industries. He'd known for at least three months.And in two weeks, Claire was supposed to leave for Stanford with James by her side.Lewis ate what was put in front of him. He answered when spoken to. He smiled when Claire looked at him, which she did often,
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 274: Claire's Speech
[POV: Yessica] [Location: Edinburgh — St. Andrews College Auditorium]The auditorium held four hundred people and felt like every single one of them was holding their breath.Yessica sat in the second row with Rose on her left, Grace on her right, and Ethan one seat over beside Lewis. The seats were padded and formal, the kind designed for occasions that required good posture. Rose had lasted approximately eleven minutes before she started drawing on the back of the program.On stage, the principal was finishing his remarks.Yessica glanced at Lewis. He was watching the stage, his expression controlled and present in the way he'd been all morning — the careful steadiness of someone carrying something heavy and refusing to let it show. She'd watched him choose this, minute by minute, since the call with Eleanor.She was proud of him for it.The principal said Claire's name.The auditorium applauded as Claire walked to the podium. Cap, gown, gold cords. Eighteen years old. She adjusted
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 273: Sienna's Return
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh]He hadn't slept.Sienna's voice had been the same. Calm, controlled, carrying the particular precision of someone who had spent years planning a conversation and was finally ready to have it.She'd said: "I'm back in Edinburgh, Lewis. I have something you need to hear before Thursday's board meeting. Meet me, or find out the hard way."Then she'd ended the call.That was eleven hours ago.He stood at the kitchen counter now, watching the clock on the cooker. Six forty-three in the morning. In four hours, Claire would walk across a stage as valedictorian and deliver a speech she'd spent three months writing. His daughter, eighteen years old, Stanford-bound, the best thing he'd ever had a hand in building.He was not going to let Sienna take that day from him.Yessica came downstairs in her dressing gown, saw his face, and went straight for the coffee."She called again?" Yessica asked."She didn't need to. She said enough.""What does she want?""She
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 272: The Unknown Sender
[POV: Yessica] [Location: Edinburgh]Lewis didn't come home for dinner.That hadn't happened in three years. Not without a call. Not without a text that said running late, save me something.Yessica put Rose and Grace to bed at their usual times, listened to Grace negotiate for fifteen more minutes with the focused persistence of a nine-year-old who understood that persistence was its own argument, and said no with the calm authority of someone who had been saying no for nine years and had no intention of stopping.She left a plate in the oven. Sat down at the kitchen table with her laptop and a cup of tea that went cold.At nine forty-seven, she heard the front door.Lewis came into the kitchen and sat down without taking off his coat. That was the tell. Lewis always took off his coat."Tell me," she said.He pulled out his phone and placed it flat on the table between them. The message was still on the screen. Four words from an unknown number.We need to talk."When did this come
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 271: The Heir He Never Asked For
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Sterling Industries Headquarters]The envelope had been sitting on Lewis's desk since Tuesday.He hadn't opened it.Marcus had left it there without a word, which was worse than if he'd said something. Marcus always had something to say. The silence meant he already knew the answer and wasn't sure how Lewis was going to take it.Lewis picked it up now. Turned it over.Sterling Industries. Board of Directors. Private and Confidential.He dropped it back down.The view from the thirty-second floor was the same as it had always been — Edinburgh's skyline, low and grey and permanent. His father had stood at this window. Lewis had stood at this window for twenty years, making decisions that moved markets, that employed four thousand people, that kept the Sterling name on buildings across three continents.He was forty-two. His children were growing up.And apparently the board had decided that was a problem.Marcus appeared in the doorway at half past f
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 270: Catherine's Condition
Lewis called Eleanor at seven-thirty the next morning.He'd been awake since five. He'd read her message four times, made coffee, read it again, and waited until a reasonable hour before picking up the phone.Eleanor answered on the second ring."I was expecting your call," she said."Tell me about the condition.""I'll send you the formal documentation this morning. But the summary is this." A brief pause. "Catherine attached a condition to Claire's trust fund disbursement. The standard portion — equal share with the other children — releases unconditionally at eighteen. But there is a secondary fund. Substantially larger. It releases only if Claire reads the letter."Lewis was quiet for a moment."She made the letter a prerequisite for the inheritance.""Not the primary portion. The secondary fund is additional — it doesn't affect what Claire receives regardless. But Catherine set aside a separate amount, significantly more, contingent on proof of delivery and acknowledgment of rece
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 175: Before Saturday
POV: Lewis | EdinburghLewis stood at Harrison's door for a long moment after the words landed.Four months. You were going to let him disappear.Harrison looked at him without the composure routine, without anything managed. Just an old man in a doorframe who had decided, late and irrevocably, to
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 3 — UNSPOKEN TRUTHS
POV: Yessica | Location: New YorkShe should have gone back to sleep.She knew that. She was lying in the dark in the guest room with her hand on her stomach and her phone face-down and the silver box on the nightstand, and the rational thing — the self-preserving thing — was to put the pillow over
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 2 — THE MORNING AFTER
POV: Yessica | Location: New YorkSeven days.Seven days since the test, and she still hadn't told him.She'd planned it a hundred different ways. The right moment, the right words, the right version of Lewis sitting across from her long enough to actually hear it. But the right moment kept not arri
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 1 — COLD SHEETS, COLDER HEARTS
POV: Yessica | Location: New York"Conference call in twenty."Lewis didn't look up from his phone.Yessica set his plate down. Eggs perfect, bacon crispy, coffee at exactly the temperature he liked. Three years of mornings and he still hadn't learned to say thank you like he meant it."I made your
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