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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 266: Lewis Called Marcus at Midnight
Lewis sat at the kitchen table at six-forty-three in the morning with his coffee going cold and the house still quiet around him.The document on his laptop was sixty-eight pages. He'd been working on it for three months, adding to it every morning in that window between five-thirty and seven when the children were still sleeping and the day hadn't made its demands yet.Sterling Industries. Ten-Year Transition Plan. Draft Version 4.He read through the first section again and made a minor edit. Then he closed it and sat back and let himself feel the full weight of what he was considering.He was going to sell the company.Not immediately. Not carelessly. But he was going to sell it, and he'd known it for a while now, and the only thing left was to decide how and when and to whom.***Yessica found him there at seven-fifteen, still in his dressing gown, staring at the closed laptop."You've been down here for over an hour," she said."Thinking."She poured herself coffee and sat across
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 265: Claire Finally Said
The call came from school at 10:47 on a Tuesday morning.Lewis was in a meeting. Yessica took it.Mrs. Henderson, Claire's school guidance counsellor, spoke in the measured tone of someone who had handled these conversations many times and understood that the first sixty seconds mattered. "There was an incident in health class this morning. Claire isn't in trouble. But I'd like both of you to come in this afternoon if possible."They came in at three.The office was small and institutional — one window, two chairs angled toward Mrs. Henderson's desk, a bookshelf with the kind of titles that signal a person who thinks carefully about adolescent development."During a lesson on family structures and relationships," Mrs. Henderson said, "Claire challenged the teacher's use of the term 'broken families.' She argued that the framing was reductive. She asked whether children of divorce were statistically more likely to develop anxiety around their own relationships." She paused. "Then she b
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 264: He Thought Lewis Would Come Alone
The extraordinary board session was set for the fourteenth at two in the afternoon.Twelve people in the room. Three external advisors. One agenda item: leadership review and succession timeline, requested by Alistair Vance.Lewis arrived six minutes early. Eleanor was already there.She'd set up at the far end of the table with a legal pad, a folder, and the particular composure of a woman who had been in far more difficult rooms than this one and had won most of them.Vance arrived at one fifty-nine, saw Eleanor, and paused for exactly one beat. Then he sat down, arranged his papers, and said nothing.Hargreaves called the session to order at two sharp."Alistair has formally requested a governance review under article fourteen of the company charter," he said. "He's asked us to consider a structured transition of executive leadership. Alistair — the floor."Vance stood. He'd prepared. Lewis could see it in the organization of the presentation, the pre-loaded projector, the clean su
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 263: Ethan Told Regina He Forgave Her
Ethan picked the park.Not the one near Lewis's house, not the one near Regina's. A different park entirely — one they'd never been to before, one that didn't belong to either version of his life.He asked Regina to come alone. No David.She arrived first and was sitting on a bench when he came through the gate, hands in the pocket of his school jacket, the one with the team badge on the sleeve he'd been wearing for two weeks straight.He sat down next to her.Not far away. Next to her."You wanted to talk," she said."Yeah."She didn't rush him. That was the one thing she'd learned to do right — not fill his silences before he was done with them.He looked straight ahead at the empty football pitch. A crow was walking across the penalty area with no particular urgency."I went back to see Dr. Morrison," he said."She asked me to do something. She asked me to write down the thing I was most angry about. One sentence.""What did you write?"Ethan pulled a folded piece of paper from his
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 262: Vance Had Documentation
The café was Lewis's choice, not Vance's.Vance had suggested a private members' club near the financial district. Lewis had replied with a coffee shop on Leith Walk, the kind of place with mismatched chairs and no private tables, where everyone could see who was sitting with whom.Vance had agreed without comment.He was already there when Lewis arrived. Late thirties, dark suit, the relaxed posture of a man who believed he held better cards than the person walking toward him.Lewis ordered at the counter and sat down across from him."Thank you for coming," Vance said."You said you wanted to talk directly. I'm here."Vance smiled. Not warmly. "I appreciate that. No lawyers, no board minutes. Just two people being honest.""Go ahead then.""I'll get straight to it." Vance wrapped both hands around his coffee cup. "I like you, Lewis. That's not a performance. You've built something genuinely impressive with Sterling Industries. The last four years have been strong by any metric.""Bu
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 261: Regina Finally Told the Truth
Regina hadn't touched the water.She'd been sitting in Dr. Chen's office for four minutes and the glass was exactly where the assistant had placed it — untouched, sweating in the afternoon warmth.She'd arrived already crying. That wasn't her usual way into a session. She was composed. Measured. Precise. She'd spent ten years building those qualities into her default setting.This week had stripped all of it back to nothing."He thinks he was bought," she said. "My son. He sat in front of me and said 'I was bought, like at the pet shop when people buy a puppy.' He said that."Dr. Chen gave her silence. Not uncomfortable silence — the kind that meant: keep going."He's ten years old. He shouldn't know what that means. He shouldn't have a framework for that conversation. But he does, because I made choices before he was born that made it necessary.""Which choices?" Dr. Chen asked.Regina looked at her hands. "Do you want the list in chronological order or order of damage done?""Whiche
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 51 — The Bookshop Saturday
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 50 — Regina
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghShe stared at the name for three full seconds.Lewis saw her face."What is it?"She turned the phone so he could see the screen.Something moved across his expression. Not guilt — recognition. The particular alertness of someone who has just understood a connecti
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 46 — Pippa
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 45 — The Saturday After
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