All Chapters of His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

POV: Lewis | Location: Edinburgh"Which street," she'd asked last night.He'd told her. She hadn't replied after that.Lewis stood in the Marchmont flat at eight forty-three on Saturday morning, coffee from the corner shop going cold in his hand, and looked at the space that was, as of Thursday, legally his.Third floor. High ceilings. Two bedrooms and a box room that could become a third. The Edinburgh light came through the front windows in a way that made the bare walls look almost finished.Six minutes from Yessica's door. He'd walked it twice.His phone was in his pocket. She still hadn't replied.He'd told her last night — no contingencies, she'd said, so he'd told her — and then silence. Which meant she was processing it the way she processed everything: completely, methodically, alone, before she said a word.He made himself stop checking the phone.She arrived at nine-fifteen.He heard her on the stairs and opened the door before she knocked.She stood in the doorway with Ros

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

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

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

POV: Lewis | Location: EdinburghMarcus called back at 8:47 PM.Lewis was in Yessica's kitchen, Rose on his knee eating rice cakes with the focused determination of someone who had just woken up and intended to make the most of it. Claire was back from Theron's, drawing horses at the far end of the table, close enough to be present, far enough to pretend she wasn't listening."Full chain," Marcus said. "Harrison Sterling, through the Meridian family trust, holds an eleven percent stake in Bellamy Holdings originating from the seed round three years ago. It was structured as a silent instrument — no board rights, no information rights. Just economic exposure.""And the amendment to the change-of-control clause.""Introduced fourteen months ago through a variation agreement. The original investor — which is Harrison — has the contractual right to propose variations. Bellamy's legal counsel at the time signed off without flagging it as material." A pause. "Lewis, whoever reviewed that va