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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 tell the truth."Why are you telling me now?" Lewis said."Because after Saturday, when Ethan is more fully part of this family — and he will be, I can see it already — I want him to know his grandfather told the truth when it mattered." Harrison paused. "Even when it was very late.""So this is for Ethan.""It is for Ethan. It is also for me." He held Lewis's gaze. "Both things can be true."Lewis looked at him."I will not pretend this changes nothing," he said. "It changes something. But I know who you are now. And I know who you were then." He picked up his keys. "I am going home."Harrison nodded. "Tell Yessica tonight.""I always do now," Lewis said.***She was at the kitchen table wh
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 174: What Harrison Knew
POV: Lewis | EdinburghHarrison was in the sitting room when Lewis arrived, a blanket across his lap that he had clearly not chosen for himself. He looked better than the hospital version — more color, more irritation at being stationary."You got her message," Harrison said."Last night." Lewis sat across from him. "Ask Harrison why. That was all she sent.""Yes." Harrison looked toward the window. "She told me she was going to send it.""So she asked your advice about the judgment.""She did." He adjusted the blanket and seemed to find it offensive. "She came to me two days ago. She had the proposition ready — the board seat, the restitution, the testimony. She wanted my read on whether you would accept it.""And you told her?""I told her you would refuse it. I told her you would refuse it specifically because she attached a threat to it." Harrison looked at him directly. "I told her that if she wanted to demonstrate any genuine change, the proposition was already the wrong approac
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 173: What She Needed to Hear
POV: Yessica | EdinburghClaire looked up the moment the front door opened."You were gone forever," she said.Lewis set down his bag. "I know. I am sorry."Ethan looked up from the drawing he had been working on, rabbit tucked under his arm. "Did something bad happen?""Something complicated."Ethan thought about this with the focused seriousness he brought to all important questions. "Like when puzzle pieces look the same but they go in different places?"Lewis looked at him. "Exactly like that."Yessica did not say anything. She set the pan on the counter with a quiet, deliberate movement and turned back to the stove.***She waited until the children were in bed.Claire had kissed Lewis goodnight and told him that next time he should text because that is what her teacher says you do when you are going to be late. Ethan had patted Lewis's hand once before letting Yessica carry him upstairs, which was new and small and she was not going to look at it too closely tonight.Lewis was i
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 172: What He Refused
POV: Lewis | EdinburghLewis turned back from the door."I want to see them," he said. "The messages. Before I decide anything."Catherine glanced at the woman beside her."Sienna would need to authorize access to—""Then call her now." His voice was even. "I am not making a decision about what those messages reveal without reading them myself."The woman beside Catherine — Sienna's representative, he understood now — made a quiet call. Eleven minutes later, Eleanor's encrypted portal had the excerpts. Lewis read them standing in the corridor on his phone, alone.He had written the first one forty-eight hours after Regina's solicitor contacted him.I will not accept responsibility for something I cannot verify. When confirmation exists, I will act accordingly.The second was two days later.I am not changing anything in my life based on a single claim. Verification first. Everything else second.The third was to his then-lawyer, two weeks before the DNA test.If this is legitimate I w
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 171: What It Would Cost
POV: Lewis | EdinburghEleanor spread the Sienna email across her desk at nine-oh-five.She had printed it. She read it the way she read everything — once quickly, once slowly, making one mark with her pen at the bottom."She wants civil immunity," Lewis said."She wants your specific immunity," Eleanor said. "She is not asking the court. She is asking you to choose not to pursue her. That distinction matters because it cannot be undone in an appeal and it cannot be reversed by a change in legal strategy." She set down her pen. "In exchange she offers you the complete operational record of the attacks. Every instruction, every payment, every communication between her, Marcus, Catherine, Regina's lawyers, Harland Capital, Whitmore and Associates — all of it.""Can we trust that she actually has it?""Sienna is thorough. She kept documentation on everything specifically because people like Marcus needed managing." Eleanor folded her hands. "She would not have made this offer without bei
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 170: The Price of Everything
POV: Lewis | EdinburghHe sat in the hospital car park for four minutes with Sienna's message on his screen.Then he called Eleanor.She answered on the third ring. He read the message aloud."Do not respond," she said immediately. "Not tonight.""I know that.""I mean it. Whatever Catherine asked Sienna — whether it is legitimate or another play — responding at midnight from a hospital car park is not the condition under which you make that decision." A pause. "Go home. Come to my office at nine tomorrow."He ended the call.Then he called Catherine.She answered after two rings. He heard the hospital background — she had not left."You contacted Sienna tonight," he said. "What did you ask her?"A silence."I asked if she would be willing to meet with you," Catherine said. "Not through lawyers. In person.""Why would I want that?""Because she has a complete picture of everything that happened. Every instruction, every method, every person involved from the beginning. I do not have t
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