All Chapters of BILLIONAIRE’S REGRET: After My Rebirth: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

001.|• DELORESI have THREE months left to live.I HAVE three MONTHS left to live.I HAVE THREE MONTHS LEFT TO LIVE.My vision blurred as I stared at the test results in my trembling hands. The words on the paper danced before my eyes, refusing to make sense.“Mrs. Aaron,” the doctor’s voice broke through the ringing in my ears calmly, “you’re at the final stage of renal failure, specifically, the end stage. Your kidneys are functioning at less than ten percent. Without a transplant or dialysis, you might have around—”“Three months left,” I completed, the tears I was fighting back rolling down my cheeks.Three months. Just three months to breathe, to live.I pressed my lips together, trying to smile like it didn’t hurt. Like I wasn’t falling apart inside.The doctor looked at me with pity. “We can begin dialysis immediately. It’ll help prolong—”“No.” The word came out sharper than I intended. My chest heaved as I lowered the results onto the table. “I’ve spent half my life pretendi

003.|• DELORESDarkness.It was the last thing I remembered.The cold, the smell of smoke, and the taste of blood on my lips. The truck’s horn still echoed somewhere deep in my mind, and Aaron’s name flashing on my cracked phone screen…Then silence.I thought that was the end.But when my eyes opened again, I wasn’t surrounded by twisted metal or the sound of sirens. I was lying on a soft bed. The air smelled of antiseptic and something faintly floral. There was warm sunlight streaming in through white curtains.My head throbbed. My throat felt dry. I blinked, trying to make sense of everything.Where was I?I turned my head slowly and saw an IV line attached to my arm. My heart skipped a beat. The steady beeping of a heart monitor filled the quiet room.Was I… alive?A nurse rushed in almost immediately, her eyes widening. “Mrs. Aaron, you’re awake!”Mrs. Aaron.My stomach twisted. I knew that name too well, and it filled me with so much hurt and anger.“What… what happened?” My vo

005|• DELORESI expected him to be happy.To see a smile break across his face because I was finally giving him something he’d always wanted—something I should have given him a long time ago.Maybe it would have saved me the trouble of dying.But as I looked at Aaron, surprise surged through me. Aaron didn’t look relieved. He didn’t look excited or triumphant.He looked… broken.His eyes were wide with shock like he was still trying to process what I just said. Why wasn’t he smiling? I forced myself to hold his gaze even though every second felt like I was peeling my skin open.This was what he’s always wanted, right? This should be an opportunity for him to finally live his life, be with a lot of women like he had been without me being in his life to hold him down. I was never fit for his polished world anyway. I was nowhere near those actresses or models who come into his company in the guise of getting their outfits just so they could have a taste of him.I was finally setting him

|• AARONI’d never been this anxious and nervous in my life. I had just six months to win Delores’ heart again. I had no idea what happened or why she suddenly wanted a divorce—why she suddenly looked at me like I repulsed her, why she suddenly turned cold. I suspected it might be because I didn’t love her enough.Maybe because these days I got so busy, I didn’t pay much attention to her. I may have helped her privately by making sure her coffees were always delivered to her during work, making sure the daffodils in her office never died, and other things I thought I was doing right.But I hadn’t really loved her openly.Unease crept up in my chest at the realization that I was the cause of all this. I was the problem. I didn’t give her quality time and attention, and because of that, her feelings for me had died.I wanted to apologize, but I knew damn well that to Delores, apologies without actions were meaningless.So I had decided to not just talk, but do. And I had just six months

|• DELORESIf there’s one thing I’ve learned, it is that whenever something poses a threat to your life, you avoid it by all means. Who knew avoiding could sometimes make you feel so empty and lost? Like you’re starting life from scratch and you have no idea which direction to take.I sat on the bed, fiddling with and biting my fingers, a habit I’d developed in my past life due to constant anxiety and depression. I couldn’t bring myself to think without damaging my nails.Another one was washing my hands until they were red and achy. It was easier to focus on the pain than the chaos that was my life.Aaron’s question echoed in my head. He had the audacity to talk about whether what he did was unforgivable? If only he knew what the future held if I were to take him back.I could swear to everything that is holy that I hated him with everything in me. But there was still a little part of my heart that hadn’t actually let him go yet.That stupid part that made my chest ache when he asked