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Chapter 297: Claire's Decision
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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 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 175: Before Saturday
POV: Lewis | EdinburghLewis stood at Harrison's door for a long moment after the words landed.Four months. You were going to let him disappear.Harrison looked at him without the composure routine, without anything managed. Just an old man in a doorframe who had decided, late and irrevocably, to
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 120 — Eleven Minutes
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghThe room was smaller than she'd expected.Cream walls. A table. Two chairs facing the registrar's desk. A window with a view of the car park and, above the rooftops, the tip of Edinburgh Castle in the late morning light.No flowers. No music. No guests.Just Lewis
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 108 — Moving Day
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghThe removal van arrived at seven-fifteen.Claire was already dressed, sitting on her packed boxes in the hallway of the old flat, wearing her good coat with the brass buttons because she'd decided moving day was an occasion."Are we going now," she said."Soon," Y
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 1 — COLD SHEETS, COLDER HEARTS
POV: Yessica | Location: New York"Conference call in twenty."Lewis didn't look up from his phone.Yessica set his plate down. Eggs perfect, bacon crispy, coffee at exactly the temperature he liked. Three years of mornings and he still hadn't learned to say thank you like he meant it."I made your
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