Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 173

Chapter 173 Let Her Go

Lauren would never dare call the police over the children —not in a million years. Her only recourse was to collapse

into tears in front of Dominic and Eleanor.

Or perhaps she would have called, eventually.

But right now, her mind was so twisted on using the children to bring herself down in their eyes that the thought of involving the police hadn’t even crossed her mind.

Now, Aurelia had made the call first.

She finished speaking to the dispatcher and ended the call, her expression as cool as ever.

Eleanor’s breath came in ragged gasps. “How dare you call the police? You’re the one who took the baby! You’re the one who killed her!”

“I may not have the right, but someone had to. Since you all seemed to have forgotten, I thought I’d help. You really should learn to appreciate a kind gesture,” Aurelia qaig.

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That last phrase was like a knife to Eleanor’s heart.

Kind gesture?

As if she could ever accept anything from this woman now. Her poor granddaughter, barely days old, was gone.

Aurelia’s gaze shifted to Eleanor, her eyes cold. “Right now, you’re convinced I killed that child. And I did slap you earlier. With all that against me, my divorce with your son should be a formality, don’t you think?”

“Get out. Get out of my sight!” Eleanor snarled.

She was beside herself with rage.

Aurelia was the one asking for a divorce? How dare she? If anyone was going to end this marriage, it would be the Hawthornes.

It would be them casting her out, not the other way around.

Aurelia’s gaze flicked to Dominic. “And you were about to hit me, too,” she said softly.

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Dominic’s jaw tightened, his face a mask of cold fury

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Logically, he should be the one screaming, the one demanding answers.

But hearing her say those words in that dead, hollow tone felt as if a hand had reached into his chest and squeezed

his heart.

Aurelia turned to leave.

“Wait,” Dominic said.

She paused, her back still to him. “What is it?”

“Let her go!” Eleanor shrieked as Dominic stood up, clearly intending to block Aurelia’s path.

He stepped forward, placing himself directly in front of Aurelia, and spoke to his mother in a voice like ice, “You

need to leave. Now.”

“Dominic, what is wrong with you? Your brother’s child is dead, and you’re still protecting her? After the fire, after everything?” Eleanor cried.

She gestured wildly, her face contorted with grief and

anger.

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“One child is dead, and your brother’s other baby is clinging to life. Are you really going to let her stay here and kill that one, too?”

Fury and heartache twisted inside Eleanor.

She simply couldn’t understand-after everything that had happened, how could Dominic still refuse to let Aurelia go?

They should have divorced long ago.

Dominic’s eyes narrowed into slits. “I said, go.”

The words were spat out with such venom that Eleanor

flinched.

At that moment, Dominic knew with a terrifying certainty that if he let Aurelia walk out that door, he would lose her forever.

Not that he hadn’t already lost her, of course. He just hadn’t realized it yet.

Over the past six months, he had trampled on her

9undaries again and again.

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And earlier, he had truly meant to hit her.

He had swung with all his strength.

If that blow had landed square on her face, it would have shattered her cheekbone, maybe even ruptured her

eardrum.

“You… you ungrateful… How could I have raised a son like you?”

Eleanor sputtered, too furious to speak.

With a final, indignant huff, she spun on her heel and stormed out, slamming the door behind her.

The room fell silent, leaving only Dominic and Aurelia. He turned to face her, and his breath caught in his throat when he saw the thin, red scratch on her cheek—left by his own fingernail.

A wave of physical pain washed over him. He reached out instinctively, wanting to touch the mark, to smooth it

away.

However, Aurelia flinched back, a single step that spoke 36

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volumes.

She looked at him with such cold, detached disdain that it

left him feeling hollow.

“Was it really you?” he asked.

Deep down, a tiny part of him refused to believe it.

He couldn’t reconcile the woman he had married- defying everyone to do so—with this heartless creature.

But if not her, then who?

Aurelia watched the conflict warring in his eyes and spoke, “You have to trust yourself.”

The words were the final nail in the coffin. Whatever flicker of doubt he had felt was extinguished.

“You…” Dominic began, his voice cracking.

“Everyone else in the world can betray you, but you must always believe in your own judgment,” she continued.

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His eyes darkened, the last vestiges of hope dying within him.

Her words confirmed his worst fears: she was guilty.

Dominic closed his eyes for a long moment. When he opened them, they were empty of all emotion save for a cold, hard resolve.

He pulled out his phone. “If that’s the case, then I have no choice.”

Aurelia watched him punch in the emergency number.

He was really going to do it.

Before he could hit “call,” her own phone chimed.

It was a text from Gareth: [Ms. Sterling, I’m outside. Shall I come in?]

[No.]

She slipped the phone back into her pocket and looked up at Dominic. His finger hovered over the call button, but

the damage

was already done.

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Aurelia shifted her gaze away from the phone and headed straight for the door.

As she passed him, he reached out and grabbed her wrist, his fingers digging into her skin.

“If you’re innocent, I will make this right. I will give you justice,” he said, his voice strained.

Aurelia laughed. It was a short, harsh sound that cut through the tension like a knife.

Justice?

If she didn’t have Sebastian backing her, if she were truly put behind bars, she’d be dead before Dominic ever got around to delivering that so-called justice.

The word was absurd.

“Save it,” she said.

Her laughter grated on his nerves, making his breathing quicken.

“You’re doing this for the family. I understand. You hay6

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to give them a show,” she said, her smile widening into something cruel and knowing.

The word “understand” felt like a slap.

Dominic’s grip on her wrist tightened painfully. “Where are you going?”

“It’s not your concern anymore,” she retorted.

“We’re still married.” He ground the words out through clenched teeth.

Aurelia met his gaze steadily. “Not for long.”

She said it with a surprising lightness, as if the weight of their broken relationship had finally lifted.

Today’s events had simplified things, somehow. The end was in sight.

Before Dominic could respond, she wrenched her wrist free and walked out the door without a backward glance.

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