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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 144: Monday Evening
POV: Lewis | EdinburghLewis was home by five-thirty, which was earlier than he had planned and earlier than Yessica had expected.He came through the door, set his bag down, and looked at her."Eleanor called me," he said."I know.""You met with Regina.""Yes."He did not raise his voice. He walked to the kitchen, poured a glass of water, and drank half of it. When he turned around his face was controlled in the way that meant he was working to keep it that way."Alone," he said. "Without telling me. Without Eleanor.""I knew you would say don't go.""I would have said don't go.""That is why I didn't tell you first." She kept her voice level. "I wanted to hear what she had to say directly. No lawyers moderating it. No one managing it. Just the two of us."Lewis set down the glass. "And?"She told him everything. The specific language. The warning about Ethan's attachment. The accusation of ambivalence. The instruction to stay distant. Her own response.He listened without interrupt
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 143: Monday
POV: Yessica | EdinburghThe text came at nine-fourteen, while Lewis was already at the office and the girls were with the nanny.Unknown number. Two lines."I would like to meet. Without Lewis and without lawyers. I think we need to talk. — Regina."Yessica read it twice. Set her phone face-down on the desk. Picked it up and read it again.She called Pippa."Don't go," Pippa said, before Yessica had finished explaining."I'm going.""Of course you are." A pause. "Tell me where so someone knows where your body is."The cafe was near Stockbridge, neutral enough that it did not belong to either of them. Regina was already there when Yessica arrived, hands around a coffee cup, no lawyer, no phone visible. She looked up when Yessica sat down. Did not smile."Thank you for coming," Regina said."You knew I would.""Yes." Regina set down her cup. "You are not the type to avoid a hard conversation. That is actually one of the things I wanted to discuss."Yessica ordered coffee from the passi
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 142: Sunday Morning
POV: Yessica | EdinburghYessica was on her second coffee when Ethan appeared in the kitchen doorway.Still in his pajamas. Rabbit under his arm. He looked at her, then at the chair where Lewis usually sat, then back at her."Where is Daddy?" he said.It was the first time he had said it. Daddy. Like it was a word he had been practicing in private and had just decided to use."Upstairs. Getting your sisters ready." She lifted her mug. "Do you want cereal?"He considered this seriously. "Can I have the one with the stars?""Yes."She got it down. He climbed onto his chair without being told and set the rabbit on the table facing outward, which appeared to be its standard positioning. Guardian mode.She poured the cereal. Added milk because he pointed at it. Sat back down with her coffee without crowding him.He ate four spoonfuls, then looked at the rabbit."His name is Button," he said."That is a good name.""I named him." A pause. "Mummy said I could.""She was right."He ate two mo
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 141: Saturday
POV: Yessica | EdinburghThe doorbell rang at nine-fifteen exactly.Yessica was in the kitchen. She heard it. She stayed where she was.Lewis answered. She heard Regina's voice first — clipped, informational, the tone of a woman conducting a handover not a conversation."His medication is in the front pocket. The EpiPen is labeled. He had porridge this morning but not much. He was nervous last night so he did not sleep well." A pause. "He has the rabbit. Do not let anyone else hold it.""Okay." Lewis's voice was careful. "Thank you for bringing him.""I am not doing it for you."Then the door closed.Then nothing for a moment.Then small feet on the hallway floor.Yessica turned from the counter. Ethan was standing in the kitchen doorway in a yellow jacket he had not taken off yet, the rabbit pressed flat against his chest, looking at the room with the specific alertness of a child cataloguing an unfamiliar place.Claire came up behind him from the hallway and crouched to his level. "
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 140: DENIED
POV: Lewis | EdinburghJudge Morrison returned at exactly thirty minutes.The room was upright before she reached her chair.She sat. Opened the file. Did not look at either table immediately."The Police Scotland application for a stay of proceedings," she said. "I have considered it."Lewis's hands were flat on the table."I am not granting the stay."Buchanan shifted in his chair."Instead," Judge Morrison continued, "I am ruling on the recordings now. In this courtroom."She turned to the first document in the file."The audio recordings submitted as evidence in this petition were collected through concealed surveillance devices placed inside the respondent's private residence without consent or warrant. Police Scotland's criminal referral, filed this morning, confirms active investigation into this collection as criminal conduct under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act."She looked up. "Evidence obtained through criminal conduct is inadmissible in these proceedings. The r
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 139: Ten AM
POV: Lewis | Edinburgh"Walsh subpoena is dead," Eleanor said.Lewis had barely reached her in the corridor. She had not waited for a greeting."Therapist-patient privilege. Duty judge ruled at seven-fifty this morning." She handed him a document. "Buchanan and Reid objected. It was overruled. Dr. Walsh will not be in that courtroom today."Lewis looked at Yessica.She exhaled."Rose's registration?" Yessica asked."Clean. No discrepancy. None." Eleanor was precise and quick. "I spoke to the clinic registrar at six-thirty. Every document is correct and properly filed. Sienna fabricated the threat the same way she fabricated Harrison's financial records. She needed Catherine controlled. It held for seven months.""And Catherine's withdrawal?""Confirmed in the court system at nine-forty-seven last night. The petition is gone." A pause. "But Buchanan and Reid filed this morning. They are trying to maintain standing independent of Catherine's decision.""On what basis?""The court's duty
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