Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 161

Chapter 161 Send Them All Back

“Adrian?” Lauren’s voice came out shaky.

Her eyes immediately turned red as she stared at Dominic, and within seconds, tears were streaming down

her face.

Dominic’s gaze dropped to her wrist where the tourniquet was wrapped, blood seeping through the fabric. His eyes narrowed slightly.

Kellen went rigid under his stare, and Lauren felt completely exposed under the weight of his presence.

“When did you get here?” Lauren asked, her voice trembling.

“You’re afraid?” Dominic said.

“What?”

The word “afraid” made Lauren’s heart pound even harder, and she couldn’t bring herself to meet his eyes

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“I’m not afraid of anything!” Lauren insisted, but her whole body was shaking, and so was Kellen standing beside her.

They’d been bold enough to use the baby as part of their scheme, but the truth was, they were terrified of Dominic finding out.

After all, they both knew Dominic’s reputation in New York. If he discovered they’d used his child as bait in their plan, they didn’t need to imagine what would happen.

That was why Lauren and Kellen had prepared so carefully for all of this.

Lauren knew the real reason Dominic cared so much about the baby was because of Adrian, who was already dead. She forced herself to look at Dominic again, tears welling up in her eyes.

Dominic gave her one cold look, and then Eleanor appeared from behind him. “What do you think you’re doing?”

Since the issue with Lauren’s mother would probably be resolved soon, Eleanor had gone back to protecting

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Lauren. She stepped forward and said gently, “Don’t ever do something like this again.”

“Mom,” Lauren whispered.

Faced with Eleanor’s fake concern, Lauren played along perfectly and acted like a wounded little rabbit seeking protection. Eleanor pulled her into a hug and patted her

back.

Lauren sniffled. “When are they going to find him? When will we get the baby back?”

Her tears fell right on cue as she spoke, and she looked exactly like a devastated mother who’d lost her child.

Eleanor didn’t know what to say. When Lauren asked her that question, she had no answer and just turned to look at Dominic.

Dominic’s face was tight with tension. He didn’t answer her directly and instead asked in a cold voice, “Where are the bodyguards?”

He’d stationed plenty of guards outside Lauren’s hospital room before, and there had even been female guards 12:28 inside. It was all to keep her from causing trouble, but

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now when he showed up, there wasn’t a single person there. The air around Dominic turned ice-cold.

Eleanor sighed. “Lauren’s mother came by earlier and wasn’t happy about it.”

Because of Marilyn, Eleanor hadn’t been able to keep the guards in place. She never expected this to happen. Now she regretted sending all those bodyguards away. If she’d left them there, none of this would’ve happened today. She was just so exhausted from all the drama.

Dominic turned to Jason behind him. “Send them all

back.”

“Yes, sir.” Jason nodded.

Lauren saw how Dominic was locking down her freedom with that cold order, and her tears started falling even harder. “Adrian, how could you do this to me?”

Dominic’s eyes narrowed. Under his icy stare, Lauren lowered her gaze. “My baby. Where’s my baby?” Her voice was filled with grief.

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Eleanor looked at Dominic too. “When are they going 28 find the baby? When will you bring him back?”

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“My poor child…” Eleanor started crying.

Eleanor’s accusations and Lauren’s sobbing felt like piercing noise hammering against Dominic’s ears, and his breathing grew heavier. The baby…

“If we can’t find him, I don’t want to live anymore. I can’t…” Lauren sobbed.

That threat made Dominic’s expression turn even colder. Eleanor doubled down on the same attitude. “Fine, then we’ll both die. I’ll go with you.”

Lauren was acting, but Eleanor meant every word right now. If they couldn’t find the baby, she really didn’t want to keep living. She felt like she’d failed her dead son, and all this chaos over the past few weeks had completely worn her down.

Dominic’s face darkened even more. “Enough!”

He was sick of all of it. Either it was Aurelia causing chaos and burning things down, or Lauren was being dramatic and threatening to kill herself, and now Eleanor was joining in too.

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On top of that, Hawthorne Group was drowning in one problem after another. He felt like his entire world had been turned upside down.

Dominic didn’t bother trying to comfort them and just walked straight out of the hospital room.

Eleanor and Lauren were furious when they saw his attitude. “Where are you going now?”

The hospital was already a complete mess, and he was still thinking about Aurelia?

Eleanor’s hatred for Aurelia was palpable. She blamed her for everything that had gone wrong.

“To find the baby. What, you expect me to sit here in the hospital and wait for him to come back on his own?”

Dominic shot back.

When Eleanor heard he was going to look for the baby, she got even more worked up. “What baby are you looking for? Aurelia obviously took him. Make her give him back!”

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Eleanor was breathing hard from anger. “I barely said two words to him and he just…’

“Mom…” Lauren looked at Eleanor with tears streaming down her face.

Eleanor heard her voice and looked down at her tear-stained expression. She thought about how Lauren had called Dominic “Adrian” again earlier, and it made her uncomfortable.

But considering Lauren had just lost her baby, Eleanor didn’t say anything. She tried to comfort her instead. “Don’t worry. We’ll get the baby back soon. She wouldn’t dare hurt him.”

Lauren threw herself into Eleanor’s arms. “If the baby doesn’t come back alive, I’ll die too, Mom.”

“I know, I know. Don’t worry, the baby will come back. She will,” Eleanor said, her voice full of pain as she tried. to soothe her.

But at that moment, while Lauren was in her arms, she and Kellen locked eyes behind Eleanor’s back, and a look of triumph flashed between them.

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In the underground parking garage, Dominic sat in his car and smoked one cigarette after another. Jason could feel the cold anger radiating off him and spoke carefully. “Sir, the situation at the company isn’t looking good.”

“Smith Group again?”

“Yes.” Jason nodded.

Smith Group had already stolen the Project Meridian from them before, and now they were at it again.

It seemed like they’d spent the past few days specifically targeting Hawthorne Group’s projects.

Smith Group, the Fletcher Group… when Dominic thought about the connection between the two, the hostility coming off him grew even stronger.

Not long after Dominic left, all the security guards were reassigned back to their posts. Eleanor and Lydia left one after another. When Lauren saw all those guards return,

K&was so angry her chest felt tight.