Billionaire's Regret: Chasing His Lost Love のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

SiennaI didn’t want to go back to Drey’s house, but that was the only place I had to go back to. After my parents’ company almost went bankrupt, I’d sold almost all of our assets to keep it floating. Two years later, I had nothing. Not a place to call home, not a penny in my account, not even clothes and jewelry I could sell off. Even the company I sacrificed everything for. I decided to check into a hotel for the night. I still had some little money I’d saved for rainy days. After checking into the little room the motel gave me, I began to regret my decision not to return home. The motel room was the size of a small cubicle with barely enough space to stretch my legs and that wasn’t even the worse part. The bed looked and smelled like it had been around for a thousand years and maybe home to… well at least a dozen different kinds of insects. The bathroom didn’t have running water. Still it was better than returning to Drey’s house where all that waited for me was silence and the

SiennaI straightened, clutching the documents to my chest like a shield. Maybe there was a time when I thought of this woman as a mother, or something close to that. But now, I knew that was never going to happen. As her son said, I was useless to this family. “I…I came to pick my things,” despite myself, I stuttered. “I’ll be gone in a few minutes.” “Your things,” Margaret laughed humorlessly. “When you came into this family, you brought nothing and you’ll leave with nothing. Don’t think you’ll be taking a anything from this house.”“Mother,” Vanessa said softly, stepping forward. Her voice was gentle, almost apologetic but there was an amused look in her eyes. “Don’t be so harsh on the poor girl. Look, she’s already going through a lot. Drey divorced her and she has no family.”I gritted my teeth, clutching the document tighter. Every part of me wanted to walk out on them. Wanted to say something as hurtful as the words they threw at me, but I couldn’t. My mouth wouldn’t move an

Sienna"Mrs. Falcon," I said flatly. "What are you doing here?"I knew she didn't come because she was concerned for me. No, that was something that would never happen, in this life or the next. Mrs. Falcon didn't show concern for anyone but herself and her immediate family.Anyone and anything beyond that was... nothing."You look particularly bad," she said, although the smile on her face didn't vanish. It was as though she just loved to see me suffering. Her nose turned up distastefully as if something in the air smelt bad. "They could have given you a better room, at least."She eyed the chair in the corner of the room and probably finally decided it wasn't fit to carry her precious body. "Drey paid the bills for you, despite my protests," she sneered. "After what you did to Vanessa, it's only fitting that he forgets all about you, but he's just too good."My anger clouded and formed tears I wouldn't let fall. Words filled my mouth but something was holding my lips shut tight."I

SiennaWhen Uncle Charles said I was going to disappear, he didn’t say it was to Singapore, neither did he say how long I needed to disappear for. Still, it was a clean break.The first week after I kissed New York goodbye was hard. I couldn’t get all the things Uncle Charles told me out of my head. I couldn’t stop wondering if Drey knew about all of it, or if he’d been part of it from the very beginning.A part of me wanted to reach out and ask him if truly he felt nothing for me. If I really had been nothing but a pawn to him. But whenever that question sprang up in my mind, the image of myself lying at the foot of the stairs with blood pooling beneath me would pop up as well.I had my answers. I just had trouble accepting them.The second week, though, was different. Uncle Charles, through video conferencing, introduced me to one of my father’s subsidiary businesses, the only one he’d managed to save from the Falcons, because they’d seen it as worthless. I had a lot of work ahead o

SiennaWhat would you do if the man you supposedly hate with every fiber of your being was standing in front of you looking like a god on a hot Tuesday morning?Despite being several feet away from me, I couldn’t deny how good Drey Falcon was looking. He was so tall I’d probably have to tilt my head to look up at him and he seemed to occupy almost all the space around him.My heart was still thumping rapidly in my chest. I hadn’t expected to run into him so soon, but more than that, I didn’t expect how my body reacted to him. Every memory I’ve tried to bury for the past five years rushed up to the surface. Choking me.But I pushed them back in before I could start reliving them, pulling at the anger that had kept me going for the past five years.“Are you sure you’re okay, Sienna?” Jason pressed forward, his arm digging into my skin as he looked down at me, concerned drawing his lip into a tight, thin line. “You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”I shook my head. I might have, because wh