Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 164

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“What kind of compensation do you want?” Aurelia

asked.

“Haven’t thought of anything yet. I’ll let you know when I do,” Grant said.

Something strange stirred in Aurelia’s chest when she heard that, and her heart felt unsettled for a moment. She stammered, not knowing how to respond.

Grant didn’t push her. After a few more brief exchanges, he hung up.

The second she ended the call with Grant, Eleanor’s call came through. “Go to the police station and bail him

out!”

Her voice was exhausted but filled with extreme dissatisfaction and commanding arrogance.

Aurelia laughed coldly. “Mrs. Eleanor Hawthorne, I should remind you that if word gets out that Dominic’s at the police station, it’s probably gonna affect Hawthorne Group’s stock price, don’t you think?”

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“You…” Eleanor’s breathing hitched on the other end.

“Are you still half asleep or something? You’re really trying to order me around right now?” Aurelia shot back.

Eleanor went quiet. Just like Aurelia said, Eleanor really was still groggy from sleep.

She’d been exhausted these past few days. First there was Lauren giving birth and all the arrangements that required, and then Aurelia had stirred up all this chaos.

Eleanor hadn’t been able to sleep properly for nights on end. Tonight, she’d finally managed to fall into a deep sleep when the police station called.

Aurelia’s shout woke her up completely, and she ground her teeth and hissed into the phone. “I don’t need you to

go!”

She hung up immediately and scrambled out of bed in a panic.

Eleanor was furious beyond words. She had no idea how Dominic had ended up at a place like that or why she had to bail him out, but she was certain that no matter what the reason was, it definitely had something to do with

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Aurelia!

Just thinking about Aurelia made her curse out loud. “She’s a walking disaster!”

This was infuriating! When was all this chaos going to end? It was driving her crazy.

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After Eleanor rushed to the police station to pick up Dominic, she kept asking what had happened, but once they got in the car, Dominic didn’t say a word. This made. Eleanor even more furious!

“Couldn’t Jason have handled this? He could’ve just sent a lawyer!” She’d had to come all the way down here herself. Was the situation really that serious? What

exactly had happened?

Eleanor glanced at Dominic again, but he just stared out the window. She had no idea what he was thinking. Despite her endless questions, he didn’t respond with a single word.

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Eleanor called out to him. “You can’t handle this baby situation like you handled the media scandal!”

She was reminding Dominic that the way he’d dealt with the media disaster before had been a complete disappointment. If he handled the missing baby the same way, would the child even make it back alive?

When Dominic stayed silent, Eleanor added another warning. “Sometimes you just can’t spoil a woman too

much.”

The way Eleanor saw it, Aurelia acted so brazenly because Dominic had spoiled her rotten. If he hadn’t given her so much leeway, would she dare pull something like this? No, she absolutely wouldn’t!

Eleanor was completely convinced that Aurelia had taken the baby.

Dominic didn’t want to waste more words on her and

turned to Jason. “Drive.”

“If anything happens to that child, I’ll kill her myself!” Eleanor threw out one final warning, and her voice dripped with venom. All her accumulated resentment 2:31

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toward Aurelia was packed into those words.

Dominic didn’t respond and had Jason drive off.

Eleanor stood there watching the car leave and clenched her hands into fists. Dominic’s lack of response told her everything. He was still protecting Aurelia.

Her phone buzzed just as she was about to turn and go inside. She glanced at the screen and saw it was Lydia calling. Eleanor answered. “Lydia, what is it?”

“Mom, Lydia’s having another episode. She keeps calling out Adrian’s name and crying for the baby!”

Eleanor’s head felt like it was going to explode.

Adrian and Lauren had already put them through hell before, and now there was a baby involved too. Aurelia was really pushing everyone to the breaking point.

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Dominic was on his way to Westchester County when Eleanor called. Her voice came through the phone sharp and urgent.

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“Lauren was already sick before, and now with everything happening with the baby, she’s having episodes

constantly. I don’t care what you have to do, but you’re getting the location of that baby out of Aurelia today!”

Every word was hard and demanding. As Dominic heard the phrase “having episodes constantly,” something clicked in his mind. He remembered what Grant had

told him last night about Lauren’s depression being suspicious.

Having episodes constantly. Depression being suspicious. The two phrases kept overlapping in his head, getting

clearer and clearer.

Eleanor was rushing to the hospital and didn’t stay on the phone long. She gave him a few more instructions and hung up.

The car pulled into the parking lot outside Westchester County Castle. Dominic closed his eyes and didn’t get out right away. Instead, he lit a cigarette first. After all this chaos, dawn was finally breaking.

Jason glanced at Dominic.

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“Still no word on the baby?” Dominic asked.

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“No.” Jason shook his head.

Dominic took another drag and looked at the golden rain tree outside under the gray morning sky.

Aurelia loved golden rain trees and always said the flowers they bloomed in autumn were beautiful. She also loved pink mimosa trees and said she loved the fresh scent of mimosa blossoms.

After learning that, Dominic had made it a habit to plant golden rain trees and mimosas anywhere she might end up living.

It was already late fall now, and the golden rain tree’s flowers had dried into husks, but the leaves were still

green.

When Jason confirmed there was still no news about the baby, something shifted in Dominic’s eyes. Then he asked a question that had nothing to do with the baby. “What do you think about Lauren’s depression?”

This wasn’t the first time Grant had brought up Lauren’s depression.

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They’d seen each other several times over the past few days, and Grant had mentioned it at almost every meeting. He’d warned Dominic about it two or three times now, hadn’t he?

Jason looked startled when Dominic asked the question. “What do you mean?”

“Do you think she could be faking it?”

Jason had no words. Dominic took another pull from his cigarette, and in that moment, his eyes grew dark and unreadable. Nobody could tell what he was thinking.

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