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Chapter 44 — After Friday
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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 260: Lewis Said It Was Just a Board Meeting
The email arrived at 6:43 AM, before Lewis had finished his first coffee.It was from Marcus. Subject line: Heads up — before you walk in today.Lewis read it standing at the kitchen counter.The board had talked. Informally, off-record. Not all of them — four, maybe five members. But those four had the institutional weight to shift a room if they decided to.The concern: Lewis was distracted. His attention was divided between Sterling Industries and his family. The company had performed well, but the opportunity cost of a CEO whose priorities had shifted was a conversation the board wanted to have.Not confrontationally. Just as a strategic discussion.Lewis set his coffee down. He replied to Marcus with two words: I see.Then he got the children to school, kissed Yessica at the front door, and drove to the office.***He had thirty minutes before the meeting. He used them to read the full board brief again, this time looking for what wasn't in it.The numbers were good. Revenue up e
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 259: Rose Was Fine
The call from Mrs. Henderson came while Yessica was booking the family therapy intake appointment.She set down the phone and stared at the wall for a second. Then she picked it up and answered."Mrs. Sterling. Thank you for taking my call. I wanted to speak with you before end of day. It's about Rose."Lewis was in his study. Yessica walked down the hall and pushed open the door without knocking.He looked up. Read her face immediately. Put down his pen.***They sat across from Mrs. Henderson thirty minutes later, the same two chairs they'd occupied the week before for Claire."Rose has a pattern I've been tracking for several months," Mrs. Henderson said. "I didn't want to raise it prematurely, but after what happened with Claire this week, I think it's important context.""What kind of pattern?" Yessica asked."Rose is doing well academically. She's engaged in class, popular with her peers, and by every surface measure, she's thriving. But when the subject of family comes up — in
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 258: Claire Broke Down in Class
The call from school came at 2:17 PM.Lewis was in a meeting. Yessica picked up.Mrs. Henderson, Claire's guidance counsellor, spoke in the measured tone of someone delivering news she'd delivered before. "Mrs. Sterling, I wanted to speak with both of you before the end of the day. Claire had a difficult incident in health class this morning. She's okay — but I think it would be helpful if you came in."They sat in Mrs. Henderson's office forty minutes later: Lewis in the chair to the left, Yessica to the right, the room smelling of coffee and something vaguely floral.Mrs. Henderson folded her hands. "The class was covering family structures and the impact of divorce on children. The teacher asked the students to reflect on how their own family backgrounds might affect their future relationships."Yessica felt Lewis go still beside her."Claire raised her hand and started asking questions about divorce rates and whether children of divorced parents were statistically more likely to r
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 257: Ethan Read Regina's Letter Five Times
The letter arrived as a message first.Ethan — I found something when I was clearing out old boxes. A letter I wrote you the night I found out I was pregnant. I never sent it. I don't know if you want to read it. You don't have to. But it's yours if you do.He'd stared at it in the car on the way home with Mama Yessica and said nothing.That night he typed back: Send it.***It came through at 9:47 PM as an email attachment. Five pages, handwritten, scanned.Mum's handwriting, smaller and more careful than it was now. Eleven years old, the date at the top.He opened it. Read the first line.Then he closed it and put the phone face-down on his duvet.He wasn't ready. Not yet.***He was ready the next morning.He sat on the floor with his back against his bed, the phone in his lap, and read every word.She wrote about the night. About Sienna and the money. About finding out she was pregnant six weeks later and not sleeping for three days straight because she didn't know what to do.She
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 5 — SILENT STORMS
POV: Yessica | Location: New YorkThe cramping started at two in the morning.Not the vague discomfort she'd been telling herself was normal for eight weeks. This was sharp. Wrong. The kind of pain that arrived with its own specific grammar — urgent, insistent, impossible to argue with.She stumbled
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 4 — BREAKING POINTS
POV: Yessica | Location: New YorkThe Harrington dinner was three days after the anniversary.Lewis mentioned it Tuesday morning with the same tone he used to mention board meetings — logistical, assumed, her attendance implied without being requested."Eight o'clock. Le Bernardin. David Harrington
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 3 — UNSPOKEN TRUTHS
POV: Yessica | Location: New YorkShe should have gone back to sleep.She knew that. She was lying in the dark in the guest room with her hand on her stomach and her phone face-down and the silver box on the nightstand, and the rational thing — the self-preserving thing — was to put the pillow over
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 2 — THE MORNING AFTER
POV: Yessica | Location: New YorkSeven days.Seven days since the test, and she still hadn't told him.She'd planned it a hundred different ways. The right moment, the right words, the right version of Lewis sitting across from her long enough to actually hear it. But the right moment kept not arri
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