All Chapters of His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

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Chapter 101 — First Look

POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghShe opened the door and read his face before he said a word.Not crisis. Not the way he'd looked coming back from London — that particular exhaustion of a man who'd been in rooms making hard decisions. This was different. Quieter.Like something had moved that he hadn't expected to move."What did he say," she said.Lewis looked at her. "Can I come back in."She stepped aside.He came in, sat at the kitchen table — the same chair, the same posture as an hour ago, but everything slightly different in a way she couldn't name yet."He said he wanted to speak to you," Lewis said. "About the girls. Not the company. Not the board.""Okay.""And then he said—" Lewis stopped. His hands were flat on the table. "He said he was sorry. That's it. Two words. He's not a man who says them. In thirty-four years I've heard them once."Yessica sat down."What do you want me to do with that," she said."I don't know." Lewis looked at her directly. "That's why I came ba

Chapter 102 — The Founding Document

POV: Lewis | Location: EdinburghHe pulled the incorporation records at eleven PM from his laptop at the kitchen table while Yessica put Rose down for the second time.Marcus had sent the full Companies House extract twenty minutes after Lewis called. The founding shareholder schedule for Bellamy Holdings Architecture Ltd, registered Edinburgh, three years and four months ago.Two founding shareholders.Yessica Hart — eighty-nine percent.Meridian Capital Partners — eleven percent.Lewis sat with that.Meridian Capital Partners was Harrison's family trust vehicle. The same entity that held the secondary debt instrument. The same entity that had funded Sienna's Edinburgh office. The same entity, apparently, that had been sitting on eleven percent of Bellamy Holdings since the day the company was incorporated.He ran the timeline.Bellamy Holdings was incorporated four months after Yessica left London. She'd filed alone — he remembered Marcus telling him that, months ago, when they'd fi

Chapter 103 — What We Don't Say

POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghDr. Chen looked at Yessica first."Would you like to explain what you wrote? In your own words."The paper was already in Yessica's hands. She'd read it out loud sixty seconds ago. Now she had to say what it actually meant."I wrote that I'm afraid Lewis still doesn't know I almost didn't come back," Yessica said. "When he first moved to Edinburgh. When he started the six-month plan, the therapy, the visits with Claire. There was a three-week period where I had a flat lined up in Glasgow. I had a solicitor ready to file for a formal custody schedule. I was going to leave Edinburgh entirely and make this a co-parenting arrangement across cities."Lewis was very still beside her."What stopped you," Dr. Chen said."Claire." Yessica kept her voice level. "She asked me why we couldn't all live in the same city as Daddy. She was four. She thought it was a simple question." She looked at her hands. "And I realized I was about to dismantle my entire life in

Chapter 104 — What Harrison Did

POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghMarcus called back in forty minutes.Yessica was at her Bellamy Holdings desk, the Canongate project drawings open in front of her, not actually looking at them."He bought it the morning after your second viewing," Marcus said. "Conditional sale, cash offer, accepted same day. The sellers were a couple relocating to London — they took the speed.""Is he blocking us or holding it.""Holding it." A pause. "He's transferred the title to a new LLC. The sole director of the LLC is you, Yessica."She put down her pen."He put it in my name," she said."In an entity he created for you. Clean title, no debt, no encumbrance. He's already instructed his solicitor to transfer full control to you upon your written acceptance." Marcus cleared his throat. "He paid one point three million. Market rate. He's not asking for reimbursement."She sat with that for fifteen seconds."Send me the paperwork," she said. "Don't do anything with it yet."She called Lewis."I

Chapter 105 — Dinner With Harrison

POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghHarrison Sterling arrived exactly on time.That was the first thing Yessica noticed. Not early — which would have been a power move — and not late, which would have been dismissive. He rang the bell at seven PM precisely, as if he'd been waiting on the pavement until the second hand moved.Lewis opened the door.Father and son stood in the hallway of the restaurant — a private dining room at a quiet place on Dundas Street, neutral ground, Yessica's choice — and looked at each other with the particular economy of men who had recently said things that couldn't be unsaid."Lewis," Harrison said."Dad."They didn't embrace. But Lewis's hand briefly gripped his father's arm before they moved inside, and Harrison's jaw tightened once in a way that Yessica was beginning to recognise as his version of visible emotion.Harrison looked older than she'd expected.She'd built a version of him in her mind over two years — the cold architect of every obstacle they

Chapter 106 — Hart Books

POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghHart Books smelled like it always had — paper, old wood, the particular warmth of a building that had been heated by the same cast-iron radiator for thirty years.Her father was behind the counter when she walked in.He took one look at her face and said, "I'll put the kettle on."That was Theron Hart. No preamble. No pretending the expression on her face meant something other than what it meant.The shop was quiet on a Thursday morning — one customer in the poetry section, another browsing cookbooks near the window. Her father moved through to the back room and she followed, past the shelf of staff picks he'd been curating since she was nine years old, past the framed photo of her mother at a bookshop in Lisbon, 1991.He handed her a mug.She sat on the stool she'd been sitting on since she was small enough to need a step to reach it."How long have you known I almost moved to Glasgow," she said.Theron wrapped his hands around his own mug. "Pippa t

Chapter 107 — What Sienna Wants

POV: Lewis | Location: EdinburghLewis called Sienna directly.She picked up on the third ring."The Granville Terrace offer," he said. "That's you."A pause. "Yes.""You're trying to buy our house.""I'm trying to buy a house." Her voice was careful. "I didn't know it was the specific one you'd chosen until my agent sent me the address this morning. By then the offer was already in."Lewis looked at Yessica. She was watching his face, reading it the way she'd learned to over the past year.He put the call on speaker."You could withdraw the offer," Lewis said."I could," Sienna said. "But I'd like to explain something first.""Go ahead.""I'm leaving London," she said. "Permanently. I gave notice on my flat two weeks ago. The Edinburgh office — the one Harrison funded — I've bought out his stake in it. It's mine outright now." A beat. "I'm moving here. That's not about you. That's not about Lewis. It's about the fact that I built something here and I'm not going to let Harrison Sterl

Chapter 108 — Moving Day

POV: Yessica | Location: EdinburghThe removal van arrived at seven-fifteen.Claire was already dressed, sitting on her packed boxes in the hallway of the old flat, wearing her good coat with the brass buttons because she'd decided moving day was an occasion."Are we going now," she said."Soon," Yessica said."That means not now.""It means soon."Claire considered this, found it inadequate, and went to supervise the removal men instead.Lewis arrived at seven-thirty with coffee and a look that said he hadn't slept much. He handed her a cup without speaking. She took it."How's the flat," she said."Empty," he said. "It was never really — I don't know. I was always waiting.""I know."Rose was in the carrier on Yessica's chest, watching the removal men with the focused attention of a one-year-old who had decided large strangers carrying furniture were extremely interesting.By nine AM the old flat was hollow. Just walls and the marks where bookshelves had been and a rectangle of slig

Chapter 109 — The Room

POV: Lewis | Location: EdinburghHe'd spent four hours on the bookshelves.Floor-to-ceiling, both alcoves flanking the chimney breast, exactly as Yessica had described on the day they'd first viewed the house. He'd sourced the same oak as the existing shelving in the hallway so it matched. He'd checked the measurements twice. He'd even grouped the books she'd already unpacked by the system she used at Bellamy Holdings — subject, then author, then date.He'd thought it would make her happy.He was wrong.Yessica came home at six from the client meeting, walked into the room, and stood in the doorway.Thirty seconds of silence."You went in my room," she said."I wanted to surprise you. The shelves—""I can see the shelves." Her voice was completely level. That was worse than anger. "Lewis, I told you. This room was mine.""I know, I just thought—""You thought." She turned to look at him. "You thought, so you made a decision about my space without asking me.""It was supposed to be—""

Chapter 110 — Ask

POV: Lewis | Location: EdinburghIt happened on a Tuesday.No particular reason. No planning. Lewis had specifically not planned it, because planning it would have made it a performance, and he'd spent two years learning the difference.It was a Tuesday evening, six weeks into the new house. Rose had a cold — not serious, just miserable, the particular low-grade misery of a fourteen-month-old who couldn't understand why her nose wasn't working. She'd been up twice the night before. Lewis had taken the two AM shift because Yessica had a seven AM site meeting at Canongate.They were in the kitchen after the girls were down. Yessica was going through drawings at the table — Bellamy Holdings project, red pen, the focused expression she got when she was finding errors. Lewis was washing up. Just the domestic machinery of a Tuesday night in a house they'd been living in for six weeks.He turned off the tap.Dried his hands.Looked at her at the table."I want to ask you something," he said.

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