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Chapter 175: Before Saturday
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 299: Yessica's News
[POV: Yessica] [Location: Edinburgh — Home / Dr. Sarah Chen's Office]She'd known for three weeks.Not known exactly — suspected, then confirmed, then sat with the confirmation while everything else was happening and decided there was no right moment to say it out loud and then run out of reasons to wait.She closed the journal.Lewis was downstairs. She could hear him moving through the kitchen, the specific rhythm of him making tea before bed, the sound that had become so embedded in her sense of what home was that she registered its absence before its presence.She got up. Went downstairs.He looked up when she came in."Tea?" he said."Sit down," she said. "I need to tell you something."He set the kettle down and sat at the table. He read her face with the careful attention he'd been giving her since the garden trip — present, not alarmed, but fully focused."Three weeks ago I went to Dr. Chen," she said. "Not for the grief about my mother. I went because I'd been tired in a spe
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 298: Before She Left
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Home / Study]He didn't sleep well.Not badly — just lightly, in the way of someone whose mind was still running through something and hadn't decided to stop.The recordings.He'd grown up in a house where Catherine controlled everything, including what was kept and what was discarded. She'd been systematic about it. After the divorce, after the conviction, after every stage of her removal from his life, he'd assumed the past was gone with her. Not just her presence — the evidence of it. The physical record.She'd kept recordings of his voice. From when he was small.He didn't know how to feel about that. He was still working it out.At six in the morning he got up and made coffee and sat at the kitchen table with a blank notepad, which was what he did when he needed to think without direction.He wrote one line: She remembered what she had before she destroyed it.He looked at it for a while.Then he turned the page.Eleanor called at nine with th
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 297: Claire's Decision
[POV: Yessica] [Location: Edinburgh — Claire's Flat]Claire opened the door before they knocked.She'd heard the car. That was Claire — always one step ahead of the sequence, already positioned for what came next.She looked at both of them, assessed their faces, and said, "You heard about Catherine.""Eleanor called," Lewis said."Are you okay?""Yes. Come in. I made actual food this time, not just coffee."The flat was warm. Something was in the oven — a proper tray bake, the kind that required actual preparation. Yessica registered that and understood it: Claire cooked when she'd made a decision she felt settled about. The cooking was the tell.They sat at the small kitchen table. Claire served food without ceremony and sat across from them with her hands flat on the table and the direct eye contact she used when she was about to say something she'd been thinking about for a long time."I'm still going to Stanford," she said first. "I want that on the record before anything else."
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 296: Two Nights Away
[POV: Yessica] [Location: Scottish Borders — Small Hotel]The hotel was forty minutes outside Edinburgh.Stone walls, six rooms, a kitchen garden visible from the window of their room. The owner had met them at the door and shown them around in ten minutes and then left them entirely alone, which was exactly what Yessica had wanted without knowing how to ask for it.No itinerary. No schedule.Lewis had brought one book and hadn't opened it.Yessica had brought her work laptop and left it in the bag.They walked on the first afternoon along a path that followed a river she didn't know the name of and didn't look up. Lewis walked beside her and occasionally said something and she responded and the conversation was the unhurried kind that required nothing from either of them — not resolution, not decision, not management of anyone else's state.Dinner at the hotel's only table, served at seven. A simple menu, good wine, the particular pleasure of a meal that required no choices about ch
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 295: The Final Call
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Study]Eleanor had arranged it for two in the afternoon.Lewis sat in his study with the door closed and the phone on the desk in front of him. The house was quiet — Grace at school, Yessica deliberately out with Pippa, the children elsewhere. He'd asked for that without explaining why and Yessica had organized it without asking questions.At one fifty-eight, his phone rang.Eleanor first. "I'm patching through. Her nurse will stay in the room. You have five minutes from connection.""Understood."A click. Then quiet. Then a breath."Lewis." Catherine's voice was different. He'd last heard it in person seven years ago — controlled, composed, still carrying the precision of someone who had spent decades shaping how she was perceived. This was quieter. Slower. The voice of someone whose body had reduced everything to essentials."I'm here," he said."Thank you for the call." A pause. "I didn't expect it.""I know.""I want to say one thing clearly be
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 294: Catherine's Letter
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Kitchen]Yessica came downstairs in thirty seconds.She saw his face and sat across from him without asking questions. The letter was on the table between them, one page, unfolded."Read it," he said.She picked it up.Lewis watched her read. He'd already read it twice. He knew which line had made him call for her — he could track it now on her face as she reached it.Her expression shifted.She finished. Set it down carefully."She knew," Yessica said."She knew."Catherine's letter had started with what he'd expected — a final accounting, the kind a person produces when they understand they're out of time. She'd written: I am not asking for forgiveness. I have asked for that before and I understand what it is and isn't. This is not that.Then she'd written the thing he hadn't expected.She'd written about Lewis's childhood. Not the version he knew — not the managed, curated version she'd presented when he was young, the narrative of a devoted mot
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 73 — Removal
POV: Yessica | Location: Edinburgh"Full removal," she said."Yes," Marcus said. "The motion is drafted under Section 168 of the Companies Act. Ordinary resolution. Simple majority. Harrison only needs half the board plus one.""How many does he have.""Confirmed? Graves and Whitmore. Suspected? On
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 71 — Catherine
POV: Yessica | Location: Edinburgh"Yessica." Catherine Sterling's voice — London, precise, no preamble. "I saw the Chronicle piece. It was well-handled."She hadn't expected that. "Thank you.""I want to be clear about something," Catherine said. "I gave Harrison the information he used. I mention
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 64 — Four Words
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghShe answered on the second ring.Not because she was ready. Because standing in the Edinburgh kitchen watching a phone ring while Pippa stared at her from across the counter was not a sustainable position."What did you send him?" Pippa said, in a whisper, exactly
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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