All Chapters of His Billion-Dollar Regret: The Forgotten Wife Returns: Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

POV: Lewis | EdinburghEleanor spread the Sienna email across her desk at nine-oh-five.She had printed it. She read it the way she read everything — once quickly, once slowly, making one mark with her pen at the bottom."She wants civil immunity," Lewis said."She wants your specific immunity," Eleanor said. "She is not asking the court. She is asking you to choose not to pursue her. That distinction matters because it cannot be undone in an appeal and it cannot be reversed by a change in legal strategy." She set down her pen. "In exchange she offers you the complete operational record of the attacks. Every instruction, every payment, every communication between her, Marcus, Catherine, Regina's lawyers, Harland Capital, Whitmore and Associates — all of it.""Can we trust that she actually has it?""Sienna is thorough. She kept documentation on everything specifically because people like Marcus needed managing." Eleanor folded her hands. "She would not have made this offer without bei

POV: Yessica | EdinburghClaire looked up the moment the front door opened."You were gone forever," she said.Lewis set down his bag. "I know. I am sorry."Ethan looked up from the drawing he had been working on, rabbit tucked under his arm. "Did something bad happen?""Something complicated."Ethan thought about this with the focused seriousness he brought to all important questions. "Like when puzzle pieces look the same but they go in different places?"Lewis looked at him. "Exactly like that."Yessica did not say anything. She set the pan on the counter with a quiet, deliberate movement and turned back to the stove.***She waited until the children were in bed.Claire had kissed Lewis goodnight and told him that next time he should text because that is what her teacher says you do when you are going to be late. Ethan had patted Lewis's hand once before letting Yessica carry him upstairs, which was new and small and she was not going to look at it too closely tonight.Lewis was i

POV: Lewis | EdinburghLewis stood at Harrison's door for a long moment after the words landed.Four months. You were going to let him disappear.Harrison looked at him without the composure routine, without anything managed. Just an old man in a doorframe who had decided, late and irrevocably, to tell the truth."Why are you telling me now?" Lewis said."Because after Saturday, when Ethan is more fully part of this family — and he will be, I can see it already — I want him to know his grandfather told the truth when it mattered." Harrison paused. "Even when it was very late.""So this is for Ethan.""It is for Ethan. It is also for me." He held Lewis's gaze. "Both things can be true."Lewis looked at him."I will not pretend this changes nothing," he said. "It changes something. But I know who you are now. And I know who you were then." He picked up his keys. "I am going home."Harrison nodded. "Tell Yessica tonight.""I always do now," Lewis said.***She was at the kitchen table wh

POV: Yessica | EdinburghThey did not go to bed.The sitting room was quiet, the house settled, the silver bands new on their right hands, and Yessica had said she needed to have a conversation about Catherine so they were having it."She did three things," Yessica said. "Accepted the defamation judgment. Used her board standing to close the Sienna thread — which I still think she did without your permission, and that is a problem we have not finished with. And then called the FCA voluntarily this morning." She looked at him. "None of it undoes what she did. But there is a difference between those actions and performance, and I can acknowledge that difference.""What do you want to do?" Lewis asked."I want to set terms," she said. "Supervised. Scheduled. Our timeline, not hers. She gets access to the children because those children deserve to know their grandmother — the actual one, not the one who filed petitions. But every condition is ours and they are not negotiable."Lewis was q

POV: Yessica | EdinburghShe had been at the kitchen table since five.Victor Hale had sent three more messages after the first one. She had read all of them before Lewis came downstairs at half past six, found her there, and sat down without asking if she was all right because he had learned the difference between her needing assistance and her needing company."Tell me what he said," Lewis said.She read him the relevant parts.Sienna had found records from Victor Hale's previous firm — a 2019 share manipulation he had believed was buried. She offered him a choice: cooperate or she gave the records to the FCA.He cooperated. For eighteen months he fed her internal information about Bellamy Holdings — schedules, restricted filings, personal data from governance documents.When the operation escalated to children and custody matters and medical records being used as logistics intelligence, he tried to stop. She threatened him again. He kept going."He is a witness and a defendant," Le