Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 209

Chapter 209 My Home

Lydia clutched her face in disbelief, but before she could process what had just happened, another sharp slap landed on her other cheek.

The sound echoed through the hall and cut through every member of the Hawthorne family like a knife.

Lydia completely lost it and glared at Aurelia with pure rage. “You bitch—”

Before she could finish, the maid standing beside her delivered another strike that stopped the insult cold.

Lydia gasped for air and stared at the maid in shock, then raised her hand to strike back.

But her wrist was caught mid-swing and held in an iron grip, and suddenly she couldn’t move at all.

“Let go of me! Let go—”

She thrashed like a wild animal, and then the maid simply released her.

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stairs.

“You gonna keep running your mouth?” the maid asked, her tone sharp as a blade.

Even the way she looked at Lydia carried a dangerous edge that made the air feel heavy.

Lydia swallowed hard under that piercing gaze, her body instinctively recoiling.

Damn it. She was just a maid, so why did she look so terrifying?

Eleanor watched Lydia get humiliated by a maid and completely snapped. “You bastards! I’ll kill you all!” she

screamed.

She lunged forward to attack the maid who’d hit Lydia, but before she could get close, the woman’s hand wrapped around her throat like a vise.

“Ugh-” Eleanor choked out.

The air was crushed from her lungs in an instant, and it felt like her entire body was being emptied from the 3:04

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She clawed and kicked desperately, but her face turned purple, and her struggles grew weaker by the second.

Lydia saw what was happening and tried to get up to help.

But the second she started to move, a maid’s foot slammed down on the back of her hand and pinned it to the floor. The pain was instant and sharp, and she screamed.

The maid moved in fast and grabbed both Lydia and Eleanor, holding them in place so they couldn’t move.

Another maid walked over with a glass of freshly squeezed juice and handed it to Aurelia. “Please have some juice while you wait. The kitchen needs a few more

minutes.”

Aurelia took the glass without looking and sipped it slowly, like she had all the time in the world.

Eleanor felt like she was suffocating. Her lungs burned, and her vision started to blur.

Lydia watched her mother’s face turn purple and blue

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and she snapped. “Aurelia, you sick bitch, you-ahh!”

The foot on her hand pressed down harder, grinding into the bone, and the words died in her throat.

This was the first time. The first time in all their years of living like queens and walking all over everyone that someone had pinned them down like this-helpless, powerless.

Lydia felt like her hand was going to break. Her whole body shook from the pain.

Eleanor’s face was turning pale now, ghostly white, and Lydia, who never, ever backed down, felt her bones go soft.

The hatred burning in her eyes as she stared at Aurelia’s back started to fade, bit by bit.

And finally, she broke.

She looked at Aurelia and forced the venom out of her voice. “Let her go. Please. If you don’t, Mom’s going to

die.”

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at her limit. She couldn’t hold on much longer.

Aurelia set down her juice and turned to look at Lydia. “Are you begging me?”

Lydia pressed her lips together. Beg her? No-she would never beg this bitch. Who did Aurelia think she was?

Just because she had Grant backing her up now, she thought she could throw her weight around the Hawthorne family? Well, if that was the game they were playing, Aurelia had clearly won.

Lydia had always looked down on Aurelia, and she sure as hell wasn’t about to start begging her now.

But then Eleanor’s struggles got weaker and weaker, and her breathing turned shallow and ragged.

Lydia clenched her jaw so hard she thought she might actually spit blood.

Finally, she met Aurelia’s smiling eyes and forced herself to nod. “Yes. I’m begging you.”

Aurelia smiled wider. “See? That wasn’t so hard You know, it’s your own fault. This is the Hawthorne Manor

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and it’s my home too. You wouldn’t even let me come back. How does that make any sense?”

Lydia said nothing.

Eleanor couldn’t say anything either.

Home? The word hit both of them like a slap. Her home?

The audacity of it made their blood boil.

But Lydia didn’t dare snap at her now.

And Eleanor didn’t have the strength to do so. Her life was literally in Aurelia’s hands.

This was what had changed about Aurelia after everything that had happened. This was her transformation.

Did she really think of the Hawthorne family as her home?

No. She was stepping on their throats to force her way back in.

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Aurelia was only after the Hawthorne family’s money.

And now what? They’d agreed on a divorce.

So why was Aurelia refusing to leave? Was she really shameless enough to claw her way back into the Hawthorne family like this?

Eleanor was furious, her whole body practically shaking with rage.

But now, facing Aurelia using the same tactics she’d once used on others, she was utterly helpless.

Lydia’s voice cracked. “Please, just make her let go.”

Lydia finally caved. At the end of the day, she was still worried Eleanor might actually die.

If this had been before, she never would’ve believed Aurelia capable of something like this.

But after everything they’d seen these past few weeks, the woman was clearly unhinged. She went after anyone who crossed her, and she didn’t care who got hurt.

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you being sincere?”

Lydia’s jaw clenched. This bitch!

She’d already swallowed her pride and begged, so what more did Aurelia want? Did she actually expect her to bow down and grovel? As if she deserved that kind of

respect.

When Lydia didn’t respond, the smile on Aurelia’s face grew softer, almost kind. “Guess you’re not being sincere after all.”

Lydia was about to lose it.

Especially hearing that calm, unhurried tone in Aurelia’s voice. It made her blood boil even more.

Finally, she swallowed every ounce of rage and forced the words out through gritted teeth. “I am. I’m being sincere.”

“So can I stay at the Hawthorne Manor?” Aurelia asked.

Lydia fell silent.

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had asked, and now she had no choice but to answer.

Lydia bit back her anger once more. “You and my brother aren’t divorced yet, so the Hawthorne Manor is still your home.”

“See? That’s all I wanted to hear,” Aurelia said smoothly. “It’s my home, so if I want to come back, I will. What’s with all the cursing and complaining?”

Lydia stood there, speechless.

Eleanor couldn’t find the words either.

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