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Chapter 192: The Final Home Study
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2026-05-27 21:00:10
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[POV: Yessica] [Location: Edinburgh — Home]The twins were born on a Tuesday in April.Both healthy. Both loud. A boy and a girl, arriving four minutes apart, with the particular efficiency of people who had been sharing a small space for thirty-four weeks and had decided simultaneously that they were done.Lewis cried. He didn't hide it this time.By the following Christmas — the one this evening was — the house had reorganized itself around the new fact of them the way houses do when something fundamental changes. Not dramatically. Just thoroughly.Rose had named them. She'd submitted a list in January with the cover note: These are options, not demands, but I have ranked them. The name that made it to the top of Yessica's list was the one Rose had ranked first as well, which Rose had noted with quiet satisfaction and not mentioned again.The boy was called Edmund. The girl was called Iris.Grace, who was nine, had been involved in the naming consultation. Her contribution had been
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 303: What Remains
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Sterling Industries / Home]Marcus arrived at nine on the fourth.He looked like a man who had spent the holiday doing the kind of thinking that doesn't leave you rested. He sat across from Lewis with his hands on the table and didn't open with pleasantries."I voted for the Whitmore acquisition because Hargreaves told me Morton's involvement would strengthen the board's position in negotiating terms," he said. "I want to be clear about that. I wasn't acting against you. I was acting on incomplete information, from someone who turned out to be Morton's contact on the board.""Hargreaves," Lewis said."He resigned in December. I don't know if you knew.""Eleanor told me.""He was feeding Morton information about board sentiment for eight months." Marcus looked at Lewis directly. "I should have come to you when Morton first approached the company through the Whitmore vehicle. I had enough information to be suspicious and I chose to wait and see rathe
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 302: Each Their Own
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 301: Christmas Day
[POV: Yessica] [Location: Edinburgh — Home]She'd texted Regina back at eleven-thirty the previous night.Take a test in the morning. Call me after. You're going to be fine.Regina had replied: I already took three. All positive. David is lying on the kitchen floor staring at the ceiling.Yessica had replied: That's normal. Tell him to get up.Regina: He's up now. He made tea. We're okay.Yessica: You're more than okay. Merry Christmas.Regina: Merry Christmas. Also please tell me it gets easier after the first trimester because I am currently terrified.Yessica: It gets different. That's the honest answer.Regina: Perfect. That's exactly what I needed to hear.Christmas morning moved the way it always did — Grace awake first, then Ethan, then the slow assembly of everyone else into the kitchen for the particular chaos of a large family on a morning with too much to do before noon.Lewis made the good coffee and started preparing things in the quiet methodical way that meant dinner w
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