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Chapter 146: Tuesday Afternoon
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2026-05-10 10:57:35
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[POV: Yessica] (Location: Edinburgh)The amended motion sat on Eleanor's table like a live wire.Termination of parental rights upon conviction.Yessica read it twice. Lewis hadn't moved beside her, but she felt the shift in him — the way a person goes quiet when something crosses a line they didn't know existed until it was already crossed."She can file that," Eleanor said, keeping her voice low and even. "But a judge won't grant it without a conviction. Right now, our focus is today's hearing. We deal with what's in front of us."Judge Morrison entered. Everyone stood.Regina sat across the aisle with her lawyer, James Whitmore — expensive suit, reputation for aggressive tactics. She looked nervous. She kept glancing at Lewis, then away.Whitmore presented his case first: printed news articles, social media screenshots, stock price charts, and minutes from this morning's board meeting, all arranged into a neat portrait of a household in collapse."Mr. Sterling's household is unde
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 181: Framed
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POV: Yessica | EdinburghShe was in the garden at seven when Ethan came out.He had the rabbit under one arm and his shoes on the wrong feet, which she had stopped correcting because he noticed eventually and fixing it himself seemed to matter to him. He sat near her on the garden step without asking if that was all right.She let him settle.He looked at the roses."My roses have more flowers now," he said.She looked. There were buds she had not noticed yesterday, small and tight, opening at the edges."They grew while we were not looking," she said.He considered this seriously."My other mummy told me something about that," he said. "She said love grows like flowers. You plant it and you wait." He looked at the roses, then at Yessica. "I think you planted some."She looked at him.He said it the way he said most true things — simply, without drama, already moving on to examining the nearest rose bush.She looked at the garden."I think you are right," she said.From the kitchen wi
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POV: Yessica | EdinburghShe had been at the kitchen table since five.Victor Hale had sent three more messages after the first one. She had read all of them before Lewis came downstairs at half past six, found her there, and sat down without asking if she was all right because he had learned the difference between her needing assistance and her needing company."Tell me what he said," Lewis said.She read him the relevant parts.Sienna had found records from Victor Hale's previous firm — a 2019 share manipulation he had believed was buried. She offered him a choice: cooperate or she gave the records to the FCA.He cooperated. For eighteen months he fed her internal information about Bellamy Holdings — schedules, restricted filings, personal data from governance documents.When the operation escalated to children and custody matters and medical records being used as logistics intelligence, he tried to stop. She threatened him again. He kept going."He is a witness and a defendant," Le
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