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Chapter 160: Role
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 160: Role
POV: Yessica | EdinburghDr. Hartley's office was on the third floor of a building near Canonmills, the kind of space that had clearly been designed for difficult conversations — neutral colors, no sharp angles, chairs arranged so no one had to sit directly across from anyone else.Lewis was beside her. Regina was two chairs over, coat still on, posture contained.They had not spoken in the waiting room.***Dr. Hartley was in his fifties, unhurried, with the specific quality of someone who spent his days listening to things children could not say directly and had become very good at reading the room around them.He did not open with pleasantries."I want to be clear about my role here," he said. "I am Ethan's advocate. I am not a mediator for the adults in this room. Every recommendation I make will be grounded in what the evidence says Ethan needs, not what any of you prefer." He looked at each of them. "Can we agree on that?"All three of them said yes."Then I want to start with t
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 159: Tuesday Night
POV: Lewis | EdinburghHe kept his voice even."Tell me exactly what he said," he said to Regina."He said the house was too loud and the lady screamed and he does not want to go back." Regina's voice was controlled. Not triumphant — that was what he noted first. Just controlled. "I am not calling to use it. I am calling because he said it to his childminder, not to me, which means he is trying to protect my feelings about it. He is three years old and he is managing adults. That is not okay.""No," Lewis said. "It is not.""What happened?"He told her the outline. Not everything. Enough. Yessica was in the kitchen listening and he did not look at her while he spoke.Regina was quiet for a moment after."Is it going to happen again?" she asked."No." He said it without qualification. "It will not happen again.""How do you know?""Because Yessica knows it happened. She already spoke to him. She is not someone who repeats the same mistake." He paused. "And because I have not been carry
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 158: Moved
POV: Yessica | EdinburghHe asked her to tell him what needed to change.She had the words ready. She had been organizing them for two days.Then Ethan's nightlight clicked off in the hallway — the small mechanical sound it made when the timer tripped at eleven — and they both heard Ethan shift in his bed, and the listening that followed was the kind that required everything.He did not wake fully. Just moved.But neither of them spoke again until midnight, by which point the words she had organized felt too large for the kitchen table and the hour, and Lewis said "Tomorrow. First thing." She agreed.She did not sleep well.***Dr. Sarah Chen saw her at nine on Tuesday morning.She told her about Monday. The shoe. The scream. What she had said. What Ethan had said back.Dr. Sarah Chen let her finish without interrupting."How do you feel about it now?" she asked."Ashamed," Yessica said. "I know the theory. I know what trauma-informed parenting looks like. I know he was dysregulated a
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 157: The Moment
POV: Yessica | EdinburghShe went to Rose first.That was the right call. Rose was in the high chair, crying from the shock of the sound, and Yessica unclipped the tray, lifted her out, and said "it's okay, it's okay" in the voice that worked, the one she had calibrated over sixteen months.Rose's crying slowed.Ethan was still standing in the middle of the kitchen.She set Rose on her hip and looked at him."Pick up the shoe," she said.He did not move."Ethan. Pick it up.""No."She had maybe four minutes before she needed to leave to collect Claire on time. Rose was still hiccupping against her shoulder. Ethan was planted in the middle of the floor with his arms crossed and his face closed.She crossed the kitchen, picked up the shoe herself, and set it in front of him."Put it on," she said.He kicked it.The shoe hit the base of the cabinet again.Rose startled. Did not cry this time, but tightened both hands in Yessica's shirt.Yessica looked at the shoe on the floor.She looked
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 156: The Following Week
POV: Yessica | EdinburghEleanor's answer came at eight-fifteen Friday morning."Do not file," she said. "Not this week. Not on top of the fraud case, the FCA investigation, and the media coverage." She paused. "Filing an urgent court application to enforce a one-week schedule deviation hands Regina's lawyer a gift. They will argue you are using the courts to intimidate a primary carer during a period of genuine instability. It plays badly.""So we let it go," Lewis said."You let it go once, you document it formally, and you put Regina on written notice through her lawyer that any future unilateral deviation will result in an immediate application. This week becomes a single incident with a paper trail. It becomes a pattern only if she does it again."They gave Ethan the extra week.Lewis told Yessica it was the right call. She agreed that it was the right call.She also did not sleep well Sunday night, which was the night Ethan should have arrived and did not.***He arrived the fol
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 155: Thursday Morning
POV: Lewis | EdinburghHis phone was lit up before he was fully awake.Six messages from board members. One from corporate counsel. Two from the Sterling Industries communications director. One from a journalist at the Financial Times requesting comment.Five forty-three in the morning.He sat up, looked at the screen, and made himself read each message before he responded to any of them. This was something Dr. Walsh had taught him before the recusal — triage before reaction.Yessica was already awake beside him. She had her own phone in her hand."Bellamy's communications team is asking if I want to issue a joint statement," she said. "Acknowledging that both companies were targets of the same fraudulent scheme.""Does Eleanor recommend it?""She says it depends on whether we want to frame this as a coordinated corporate attack or two separate incidents. The first is more damaging to Marcus's defense. The second is less damaging to us personally.""Issue the joint statement," Lewis s
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