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Chapter 270: Catherine's Condition
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 270: Catherine's Condition
Lewis called Eleanor at seven-thirty the next morning.He'd been awake since five. He'd read her message four times, made coffee, read it again, and waited until a reasonable hour before picking up the phone.Eleanor answered on the second ring."I was expecting your call," she said."Tell me about the condition.""I'll send you the formal documentation this morning. But the summary is this." A brief pause. "Catherine attached a condition to Claire's trust fund disbursement. The standard portion — equal share with the other children — releases unconditionally at eighteen. But there is a secondary fund. Substantially larger. It releases only if Claire reads the letter."Lewis was quiet for a moment."She made the letter a prerequisite for the inheritance.""Not the primary portion. The secondary fund is additional — it doesn't affect what Claire receives regardless. But Catherine set aside a separate amount, significantly more, contingent on proof of delivery and acknowledgment of rece
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 269: Would Change Everything
Lewis didn't tell Yessica about the letter that morning.He told himself he was waiting for the right moment. The truth was he didn't know how to say it out loud yet. That a woman who had never spoken a word to his daughter had written her a letter sealed in Eleanor's office, addressed to Claire Sterling, to be opened at eighteen.Claire was seventeen. Her birthday was in six months.He sat with that all day.***Yessica found him in the study at half past nine that evening, still at his desk, laptop closed, not working.She stood in the doorway and looked at him."What is it?" she asked.He turned around. "Close the door."She closed the door and sat in the chair across from the desk — the chair that had seen every difficult conversation in this house for the last decade. She looked at him steadily, waiting."Eleanor called this morning," he said. "About Catherine's estate. The trust funds are being processed. Standard administrative items.""But?""But she also told me Catherine lef
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 268: The Morning Lewis Woke Up Without a Mother
Lewis didn't sleep.He sat on the edge of the bed until four in the morning, then moved to the kitchen, made coffee he didn't drink, and sat at the table in the dark while the city outside did nothing and said nothing and kept being Edinburgh regardless.Catherine Sterling had died at nine forty-one in the evening. Stage four breast cancer, progressed faster than projected. He'd been told to prepare. He had prepared.He had not, it turned out, prepared.Yessica found him at half past four. She came in without switching on the light, pulled her dressing gown tighter, and sat across from him.She looked at him. He looked back."She's gone," he said."I know.""I keep waiting to feel the right thing. I don't know what the right thing is."Yessica reached across the table and covered his hand with hers. "There is no right thing. There's just what you feel.""I feel relieved," he said. "And then I feel horrible about the relief.""That's not horrible. That's honest."He was quiet for a mom
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 267: The Announcement
The Q1 board meeting was scheduled for nine in the morning.Lewis arrived at eight-fifteen.He spent forty-five minutes alone in the conference room with the documents, the transition framework, and a coffee that went cold while he read through every page one final time. Not because he'd changed his mind. Because once this announcement was made, there was no version of the next five years that looked like the one before it.Marcus arrived at eight-fifty. He set down his folder, looked at Lewis, and said nothing.Lewis looked back."Ready?" Marcus asked."Yes.""Any nerves?"Lewis considered it honestly. "No."Marcus sat down. "That either means you're completely certain or completely past the point where nerves are useful.""Both," Lewis said.The board filed in at nine on the dot. Hargreaves. Thornton. Peyton. The external advisors. Vance, who came in last, read the room with the particular sharpness of someone who had learned from the previous session to walk in already watching.Ha
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
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