Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 171

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In Westchester County, when Eleanor arrived, the atmosphere between Dominic and Aurelia was already

tense.

Aurelia knew it. Dominic had found out about her

miscarriage and still stubbornly insisted it had nothing to do with Lauren.

Eleanor showed Aurelia no courtesy at all. “Where is Lily?” she demanded through clenched teeth.

The moment Aurelia saw Eleanor, her expression turned icy. She stood up and kicked over the chair behind her. It slammed heavily onto the floor with a loud crash.

The sudden noise made Eleanor’s chest tighten.

“And who exactly are you putting on this attitude for?” Eleanor demanded coldly.

Aurelia answered without hesitation, “You.”

“You-” Before Eleanor could finish, her face had already

darkened completely.

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Dominic’s expression at the side was equally unpleasant. Eleanor shot him a vicious look, lowering her voice

sharply. “You really—”

“What?” Aurelia cut her off, her tone just as cold. “Am I supposed to endure your attitude forever and never say a word back?”

Eleanor was so angry that her vision darkened, and she locked eyes fiercely with Aurelia.

Aurelia let out a low, mocking laugh. “If I remember correctly, I have never put up with you. Have I?”

Even back at Hawthorne Manor, whenever Eleanor showed her attitude, Aurelia had always returned it in

kind.

The only difference back then was that Eleanor would put on a benevolent act in front of Dominic and avoid an outright confrontation.

What Eleanor had not expected was that, while she

herself had hoped to avoid an open confrontation, Aurelia had no intention of backing down.

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Eleanor clutched her chest in anger. “Where exactly is

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Lily?”

She had no interest in wasting words on Aurelia. She only wanted to retrieve Lily for Lauren.

Watching Eleanor play the part Lauren had set for her, a faint, cutting smile touched Aurelia’s lips.

She spoke evenly, each word deliberate. “Even if Lily were dead, it would have nothing to do with me.”

“How dare you speak of a child like that!” Eleanor shrieked. “You vicious woman!”

The instant Aurelia said the word “dead,” Eleanor’s anger detonated.

She lunged forward and raised her hand, intending to slap Aurelia.

But Aurelia caught her wrist in one swift motion.

Now that Eleanor had openly tried to strike her, the tension between the two women instantly became explosive.

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Dominic.

This time, Dominic merely sat on the sofa, his expression cold, showing no intention of stopping Eleanor at all.

Aurelia understood.

He was just as determined as ever to believe that Lily had been taken by her, and in his silence, he was also demanding Lily from her.

“Let go of me, you vicious bitch-” Eleanor screamed, struggling violently to wrench her wrist free.

Aurelia withdrew her gaze from Dominic’s face.

Eleanor continued shrieking curses. “People like you have no family ties. No parents, no children. Is that the lesson you’ve learned? No wonder you can’t hold onto anyone.”

Her words grew increasingly venomous. “Two

miscarriages were not accidents. It is because you are too cold, too cruel by nature. You cannot even keep your own children. You simply-”

4sharp slap cracked through the air.

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At the instant Eleanor felt the burning pain across her face, the grip on her wrist loosened.

Freed, she lost her balance and fell straight to the ground.

The room fell silent.

Eleanor covered her face, staring at Aurelia in disbelief.

“Did you just hit me?” she screamed.

“Aurelia, have you lost your mind? I am your

mother-in-law!”

Dominic was jolted by the sound. He sprang to his feet, fixing Aurelia with a chilling stare.

Aurelia did not move. She stood where she was, her expression cold, her hands clenched tightly at her sides.

“Mother-in-law?” she said slowly. “You meant the one who kept reminding me I came from an orphanage and that I had no upbringing at all? And now you expect me to show restraint and swallow everything for your sake?”

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From the years she spent in the orphanage, she had learned what it meant to want something she could never hold on to.

The loss of her child had only torn that wound wider, becoming the fuse for every confrontation between her and Dominic.

The child was gone. She had failed to protect them.

Guilt and remorse clung to her, along with the instinctive need to escape the fire she had walked into with the Hawthorne family. And now Eleanor was using that loss to strike her again.

The line had finally been crossed. What remained was not restraint, but the hard armor Aurelia had learned to wear to protect herself.

Eleanor’s voice shook as she screamed almost

hysterically, “You know what? Perhaps it is precisely

because there is something wrong with you that everyone around you ends up suffering.

“Your family, your children, none of them could stay with you. It is not a coincidence. It is because of you! You

simply do not deserve any of it!”

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Before she could finish, Aurelia grabbed something without even knowing what it was and hurled it straight at Eleanor.

Fortunately, Dominic reacted quickly and blocked it. It was a thermal container.

It did not hit Eleanor directly, but it crashed to the floor beside her head with a heavy bang.

The sound was so loud that it nearly pierced her

eardrums.

Her face went pale as she pointed at Aurelia with a trembling finger. “You are insane! Completely insane! You truly-”

Aurelia herself had been pushed beyond reason.

After finding Sebastian and Johann, family had become her absolute bottom line, and children her deepest pain.

And Eleanor, who was convinced that Lily had been taken by Aurelia, was equally out of control.

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But Dominic wrapped his arms around her in one swift motion. “Enough!”

Eleanor scrambled up from the floor. “Dominic!” she screamed.

“Stop it!” Dominic roared back.

At that moment, the air was thick with hostility from all three of them.

Eleanor shouted, “I do not care. Lily must be given to me. I am taking her back to the hospital.”

Aurelia snapped, “Take your-”

“Enough!”

Dominic’s furious voice cut her off as well.

The standoff was explosive. The servants and the housekeeper wanted to step in, but had no idea whom to

stop.

Everyone was ferocious.

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At that moment, both Dominic’s and Eleanor’s phones. rang simultaneously.

Eleanor, shaking with anger, answered first. “What is it?”

Even on the phone, she could not suppress her fury.

Dominic held Aurelia with one arm and answered his own call with the other. “Speak.”

But Dominic’s and Eleanor’s expressions both changed drastically in the same instant.

They spoke in unison. “What?”

Their raised voices made Aurelia feel a surge of unease.

She glanced at Eleanor and then at Dominic, who was holding her.

They both hung up their calls at nearly the same time.

Cold gazes fell on her together.

Eleanor’s phone slipped from her hand and hit the floor yith a sharp crack, but she did not even notice.

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She pointed at Aurelia with trembling fingers. “You vicious woman. You—”

The arm around Aurelia’s waist loosened, little by little.

Aurelia looked up at Dominic. In his eyes, there was no warmth left at all.

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