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Chapter 98 — The Envelope
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His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 99 — The Quiet Kind
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghShe sat down.She did it deliberately, because standing would have felt like preparing to leave, and she wasn't leaving. She was staying in this kitchen and having this conversation until she understood exactly what had happened."Walk me through it," she said.Lewis kept his hands on the table. "Marcus found it during the post-board financial review. Standard sweep — they look at everything when there's been a hostile move. The instrument is from your second seed round, three years ago. Secondary tranche, deferred repayment, maturity in four months.""I know the instrument," Yessica said. "I negotiated it. I know every clause in it.""Then you know the change-of-control provision.""I know it applies to acquisition. To a majority stake transfer." She looked at him. "I didn't know someone had amended the definition of change-of-control to include marriage."Lewis was quiet."Show me."He reached into his jacket — he'd had the document with him, she n
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 98 — The Envelope
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghPippa left without being asked.She just stood up, squeezed Yessica's shoulder once, picked up her laptop, and walked past Sienna in the hallway without a word — which, from Pippa, was the most restrained thing Yessica had ever witnessed.Sienna sat across from her at the kitchen table.She was composed in the particular way of someone who had practised composure as a survival mechanism. Yessica recognised it because she'd spent three years building the same thing."I didn't know it was a coordinated plan," Sienna said. "I want to be clear about that first.""Okay.""Harrison contacted me fourteen months ago. He told me Lewis was in Edinburgh pursuing his ex-wife, that you were building a company here, and that he was concerned Lewis was making a destructive decision." She kept her hands flat on the table. "He framed it as protecting Lewis. He said the relocation was impulsive. That Lewis hadn't processed the marriage properly and was going to damage
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 97 — What Pippa Found
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghLewis was still four hours away when Pippa arrived with her laptop and a look that meant she'd been sitting on this for too long."I was going to call you last night," Pippa said, setting the laptop on the kitchen table. "But you'd just had the conversation with Lewis about Harrison and I thought — give her one night.""Show me."Rose was napping. Claire was at her grandfather's until four. The flat was quiet in a way that felt appropriate for whatever was coming.Pippa turned the screen toward her.The document was a company filing — Edinburgh Commercial Property Register, submitted eight months ago. The name of the acquiring entity was an LLC Yessica didn't recognise. Pippa had pulled a chain of beneficial ownership through three layers of holding companies.At the end of the chain: a seed investment from Harrison Sterling's family office."Okay," Yessica said. "That's another Harrison property play. What's the—""Look at the director."Yessica loo
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 96 — The Sterling Name
POV: Lewis | Location: LondonHarrison was already in the members' lounge when Lewis arrived.Seven-thirty AM. The kind of hour his father preferred for difficult conversations — early enough that it felt businesslike, early enough that emotion could be bracketed under efficiency.Lewis had taken the first train south from Edinburgh. He hadn't told Yessica he was coming. He'd told her he needed a day.He sat down across from his father.Harrison Sterling at seventy-one looked exactly like a man who had spent five decades being right about everything. Silver-haired, precisely dressed, the unhurried posture of someone who did not expect to be surprised."Lewis." He nodded at the seat. "Coffee?""No."The waiter appeared anyway. Harrison ordered for himself, waited until they were alone, then looked at his son with the particular expression Lewis had grown up trying to decode — not cold, exactly. Measured."You know why I'm here," Lewis said."I imagine I do.""Crestfield Capital. The Je
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 95 — The Return
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghThe girls were back from her father's by ten.Rose went down easily. Claire pushed back for forty minutes with the focused determination of a five-year-old who sensed something was off and decided to make it structural. Yessica sat on the edge of her bed in the dark, finally, at half past nine, and read Lewis's last message again.On the A1. Four hours away. I need to talk to you before I do anything else.She typed back: Come straight here.Then she set the phone down and went to sit at the kitchen table with her laptop, because the thing about Pippa finding the connection between Harrison and Crestfield Capital was that Pippa had only found the surface of it.Yessica had spent the morning finding the rest.It hadn't taken long. Harrison Sterling's name didn't appear in any public filing — he was too careful for that. But the name of his private family office did. One minority position in Crestfield's feeder fund, held through a Jersey vehicle, regi
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns Chapter 94 — The London Room
POV: Lewis | Location: LondonMarcus was already standing when Lewis walked into the Sterling Industries boardroom at half past midnight."Six board members want your head," Marcus said. "Harrison included."Lewis set his jacket over the chair. "Walk me through it."The subsidiary attack had been precise — an outside investor had quietly built a 19% stake in Sterling Capital Partners over three months without triggering the disclosure threshold. Now they were calling for an emergency board meeting and demanding Lewis recuse himself from the vote."On what grounds?" Lewis asked."Conflict of interest. They're saying your Edinburgh relocation represents a loss of strategic focus. That you've been distracted." Marcus's jaw was tight. "Harrison's been feeding them the narrative for weeks, Lewis. This didn't happen overnight."Lewis looked at him. "My father.""He didn't start the acquisition. But he's been letting it run."The city spread below them, London at 1 AM, all glass and cold lig
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 30 — THE OTHER WOMAN
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghThe afternoon went slow.That was the problem with knowing. You kept waiting for the door to open.Yessica had shelved the same section of literary fiction twice. Agnes had watched her do it without comment, which was its own kind of comment.Three customers came
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 24 — THE REUNION
POV: Lewis | Location: New YorkPippa was already seated when Lewis walked in.Arms crossed. Back straight. The expression of someone who had agreed to this meeting and was already regretting it.Lewis ordered two coffees at the counter — black, no sugar, the way he'd watched Pippa drink it at a do
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 21 — THE BUSINESS DEAL
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghThe shop opened at nine.Agnes unlocked the door at eight forty-five and handed Yessica a broom without explanation."Start with the front step," Agnes said. "Edinburgh rain brings everything in."Yessica started with the front step.Pages Poetry was exactly what
His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns CHAPTER 25 — FRACTURED TRUST
POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghThe flat was very quiet.Edinburgh in the pre-dawn held its breath. The bakery below hadn't started yet. No smell of bread. No street noise. Just Yessica, her phone, and Catherine Sterling's voice on the other end."I see you're not going to say hello," Catherine
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