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Chapter 294: Catherine's Letter
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[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 293: Lewis Decides
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Dr. Walsh's Office / Home]Dr. Walsh's office had the same cedar smell it always had.Lewis had been coming here for six years. He knew which chair was slightly lower than the other and always chose the higher one without thinking about it. He knew the framed print on the left wall was a lithograph, not a photograph. He knew she kept water in a jug on the side table and offered it at the start of every session without making it obligatory.He sat down. She sat across from him."Tell me about the letter," she said.He'd texted ahead. She preferred having the subject before the session rather than opening cold."Catherine is dying," he said. "Palliative care. Her condition deteriorated faster than projected. She's written a letter and it's being held at her facility pending my decision to receive it or not.""How long have you known?""Eleanor's notification arrived yesterday.""And you haven't decided.""No."Dr. Walsh looked at him in the way she h
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 292: Harrison's Last Gift
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Kitchen]He read the first page standing up.Then he sat down and read it again.Eleanor's covering letter was two paragraphs. Formal, precise, the language of legal finality. The estate of Harrison James Sterling had been fully administered. All prior distributions had been executed. The remaining item, held in trust pending family notification, was now being formally released.He turned to the attached document.It was a letter. Handwritten, two pages, dated eight months before Harrison had died.He recognized the handwriting — slower than Harrison's earlier years, the letters requiring more effort, but unmistakably his.Yessica sat beside him and they read it together.Harrison had written to each grandchild individually. Not in separate letters — in one document, addressed to each of them in turn, the way someone writes when they know they're running out of time and want to be efficient with what remains.To Claire first. Precise, proud, specif
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 291: The Legacy Conversation
[POV: Yessica] [Location: Edinburgh — Kitchen]The pancakes were a deliberate signal and every child in the room knew it.Claire had come from her flat. Ethan was on his Lewis week. Rose had come down the stairs with her sketchbook, which she set on the counter rather than at the table — her version of being present without being fully committed. Grace had arrived first, sat in her usual chair, and said, "Is this about the hamster?" in a tone that suggested she already suspected it wasn't.Yessica made the pancakes and let Lewis begin.He sat at the head of the table without theatre about it and looked at all four of them."I want to talk about Sterling Industries," he said. "Not the business stuff. The part that involves you."Grace raised her hand."You don't need to raise your hand," Lewis said."I know. I'm doing it for emphasis." She lowered it. "Is someone taking it?""No. But eventually someone has to run it, or decide what happens to it, and all four of you are part of that p
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[POV: Rose] [Location: Edinburgh — Front Garden / Kitchen]She'd heard what he said.The whole speech was for you.She stood in the front garden with the sketchbook in her hands and told herself it wasn't a big deal. Claire was dramatic. Claire made everything into a thesis. It didn't mean anything specific.But her hands weren't working properly anymore and the drawing she'd been doing of the neighbor's gate looked wrong and she couldn't find where she'd gone off."Come inside," Lewis said. "I'll make tea.""I'm fine out here.""I know. Come inside anyway."She followed him in because arguing would have required a reason and she didn't have one.He made tea the way he always made it — without asking how she wanted it, because he already knew. Milk, no sugar, the bag left in for exactly long enough. He put it in front of her and sat across the table and didn't say anything immediately, which was something she'd started to appreciate about him in the last two weeks.He didn't fill sil
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