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Chapter 95 — The Return
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 149: Tuesday — Late Night
POV: Lewis | EdinburghHe called Yessica from the hospital car park.She answered on the first ring. He could hear that she had not slept."Marcus," he said.A silence."Tell me," she said.He told her everything. Catherine's account. The fourteen months. The Tokyo morning. Marsden and Cole. The board.She was quiet through all of it. He had learned to read her silences — this one was not shock. It was processing."Nine days," she said, when he finished."Until the quarterly review.""He does not need a majority to do damage at a quarterly review. He needs three things. A resolution on the table, enough proxy votes to pass it, and you distracted enough that you cannot mount a counter-response in time." She paused. "What is the composition of your board?""Nine members. Three independent directors, two institutional investor representatives, Harrison, Marcus, me, and one outside appointment Catherine held.""Catherine's seat.""She has not been active since the Rose petition. The seat
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 148: Tuesday Night
POV: Lewis | EdinburghHarrison was waiting in the corridor outside Catherine's room.He looked tired. Not the careful tiredness of someone managing how they appear, just genuinely worn out, the kind that came from a day that had asked too much."She has been waiting since seven," Harrison said. "She would not let me call you until she was ready.""Ready for what?""To say it without taking it back." He looked at Lewis steadily. "She has been rehearsing."Lewis pushed the door open.***Catherine was sitting up. No monitors, no IV — she had come in for chest pain, been checked, been kept overnight for observation. The room was private and quiet. She looked smaller than she did anywhere else.She looked at Lewis when he entered and did not look away."Sit down," she said.He sat."I am not going to ask you to forgive me tonight," she said. "That is not why I called you here. I am calling you here because I know something you need to know before that hearing, and I have spent three week
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 147: Tuesday Evening
POV: Yessica | EdinburghLewis asked her over dinner.The girls were eating. Rose had pasta in her hair. Claire was describing something that had happened at school in considerable detail. The house was loud and normal, and Lewis waited until both girls were done and in the bath before he sat back down at the kitchen table and looked at her."Before you came to Eleanor," he said. "You had a different lawyer. At the beginning. When the Rose petition first arrived."Yessica set her glass down. "Yes.""Who were they?"She looked at him. He was keeping his expression neutral, which was the expression he wore when the information mattered more than the explanation."Marsden & Cole," she said. "Someone recommended them. I did not know Edinburgh family law, so I asked around and that name came up." She paused. "I used them for about three weeks before I realized they were not the right fit. Then I found Eleanor."Lewis picked up his phone without a word and called Eleanor.She answered immed
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 146: Tuesday Afternoon
POV: Lewis | EdinburghYessica read the message over his shoulder.Neither of them spoke for a moment."Don't respond," she said.He was already calling Eleanor.Eleanor answered on the first ring. He read the text aloud. Four seconds of silence on her end."Do not respond," she said. "Not yet. Give me twenty minutes."She called back in twelve."Sienna reaching out directly means one of two things," Eleanor said. "Either the defamation suit has made her legal position uncomfortable enough that she wants to negotiate, or she is setting up a second trap and the text is the opening move.""How do I find out which one?" Lewis asked."You meet with her.""You just told me not to respond.""I said not yet. I needed to pull her background before you walked in blind." Papers moved on Eleanor's end. "Sienna Hargrave is not just a consultant. Her company, Hargrave Advisory, has a prior judgment against it. Interference in a probate case, 2021. Settled out of court. The settlement included a co
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 145: Tuesday Morning
POV: Lewis | EdinburghEleanor had the recusal motion filed by eight-fifteen.Lewis was on the phone with her when Yessica came downstairs with coffee, and she sat across from him at the kitchen table and listened to his half of the conversation without pretending she wasn't."Walsh recuses today?" Lewis said."The motion is submitted. The court will acknowledge it within twenty-four hours. Walsh will be notified directly." Eleanor's voice was measured. "She will not be able to discuss your therapeutic file with anyone once she receives notice. That protection is immediate.""And my sessions?""Suspended pending the formal recusal confirmation. A week at most. After that you find someone new and document the transition." A pause. "I know the timing is terrible. It is meant to be terrible."Lewis looked at Yessica across the table."Eleanor," Yessica said, loud enough to carry. "How did Sienna know that Dr. Walsh was Lewis's therapist? It was not in any filing. It was not public.""Tha
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
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