All Chapters of Billionaire's Regret : Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

Claire made it to her car on a trembling legs. She got the door shut behind her and sat in the driver's seat and the sob came out before she could stop it, one hard broken sound that she pressed her hands over her mouth against, and then she sat in the quiet car and breathed through her nose and waited for her hands to stop shaking enough to start the engine.They took a while.She sat in the car park of the medical facility and looked at her left hand on the steering wheel, at the bare finger where the ring had been, and felt the strange lightness of it, wrong and hollow but entirely real.She had loved him, she had loved him with all her heart, she still loved him and that was the most exhausting part of all of it, that she had walked out of that room and given back the ring and the love had not gone anywhere, it was still sitting in her chest exactly where it had always been like it had nowhere to go and she did not know what to do with that.She wiped her cheeks with the back of h

Adrain's birthday was few weeks away and Claire had bern thinking about what she should get for him on his birthday.She remembered that Adrian had been talking about the Aerotech builder series for two weeks.She had thought that she would ask him when he suddenly brought it up on a Thursday evening while she was at the sink."Mama." He called."Yes my love.""For my birthday." He said. "I know what I want."Claire smiled and turned to him, "what is that my love?""The Aerotech builder series." He said. "Functioning motor, arm moves in six directions, connects to my level five kit."Claire laughed and couldn't help but pinch his chin a little, "alright champ, we'll get you that on Saturday."Adrain's face lit up and he yelped in joy as he skidded back to his room shouting "thank you mom, you're the best."Claire chuckled softly and watched him run off, her heart swelled with love.---Adrian walked through the toy shop like he had been there before, which in his head he probably had,

Zane had eaten more at dinner than Jeff expected.The food had done what food always did for children, brought him back into his body after the emotion of the afternoon, he had worked through his plate with a focused quietness that told Jeff the crying in the car park had taken everything out of him.He went to bed without being asked at half past eight.Jeff stood in the kitchen doorway and listened to his footsteps on the stairs and the quiet close of his bedroom door and then the villa was completely still.He made coffee he did not particularly want and sat at the kitchen table and let the stillness sit around him for a while.He thought about Zane's face in the back of the car.She's going to have the baby in there. My baby sister is going to be born in a prison cell.He thought about the way Zane had grabbed his jacket with both fists like holding on hard enough might make Jeff change his mind about something.He thought about the promise he had made.Then he picked up his phone

Joe Kirby was the first witness.He was a small man in his fifties with a mechanic's hands and the face of someone who had not slept properly in a long time and when he was sworn in he looked at the floor rather than the courtroom.Ms Cartwright took him through it methodically.His name, his trade, his relationship to Matt Richardson."Mr Kirby." She said. "Can you tell the court what Matthew Richardson asked you to do in March of last year."Kirby looked at his hands."He asked me to cut the brake line on a vehicle." His voice was very flat. "A specific vehicle. He gave me the registration. He told me where it was parked.""Did he tell you why.""He said someone needed to be scared off." Kirby said. "He said it wouldn't kill anyone, just scare them.""Did you believe him."A pause."I didn't ask." Kirby said finally."Did he pay you.""Yes.""How much."Kirby named the figure."Mr Kirby." Ms Cartwright said. "Did Matthew Richardson tell you who had instructed him to arrange this?""

Claire walked into the hospital room at the exact moment the doctor finished speaking.She caught the last words just as she pushed the door open, we were unable to save the baby, and she saw Jeff standing at the foot of the bed, saw his face and then the doctor's face and she understood everything before anyone said another word.Jeff did not move when the news landed.He stood absolutely still with his hands clenched at his sides and his face doing nothing at all, not grief, not shock, just the complete stillness of a man who had been hit by something so large his body had not yet decided how to respond to it.The doctor said something else, something about Irene being stable, something about blood loss and recovery, and Jeff stood through it, he was hearing it but his brain was unable to comprehend, unable to go past the word, "we were unable to save the baby."He said nothing and the doctor left and the room was very quiet.Irene was in the bed with monitors attached and her face