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Chapter 51 — The Bookshop Saturday
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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
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 290: Lewis and Rose
[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
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 289: Lewis and Claire
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Claire's Flat]She had the coffee ready when he arrived.Not his office coffee — she'd gone to the place three streets over that roasted their own, the kind of coffee that required a considered opinion rather than just a preference. She handed him a cup without ceremony and sat across from him at the small kitchen table."You look better than yesterday," she said."Your mother made me sleep.""Good. She should do that more often." Claire wrapped both hands around her cup. "I asked you here for a reason.""I know.""I'm going to say it in order because if I don't say it in order I'll skip the parts that are difficult and just give you the conclusion, which is not useful for you." She looked at him directly. "I've been thinking about Stanford.""Cold feet?""The opposite." A pause. "I want to go into law."Lewis waited. There was more."Specifically family law. Not corporate, not criminal. Family." She held his gaze. "I've been thinking about it sinc
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 288: What Yessica Carries
[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Bedroom]He waited until the house was quiet.Grace asleep. Ethan in his room with the light still on, probably reading. Rose's door closed, the faint sound of music through it — a sign she was okay, not shutting out, just existing.He found Yessica in their bedroom, sitting on the edge of the bed with her phone in her lap and the particular stillness that meant she was doing nothing on purpose.Lewis closed the door. Sat beside her."Grace said something to me two nights ago," he said. "She said you seemed tired in a way that isn't regular tired." He paused. "And Ethan said he saw you in the garden late. Sitting alone after you thought everyone was asleep."Yessica looked at the phone in her hands."Both of them noticed," Lewis said. "Independently. Within two days.""They're observant children.""Yes. Because you raised them to be." He kept his voice quiet. "Yessica. Talk to me."She set the phone on the nightstand. Turned it face-down. Crossed h
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