Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 221

Chapter 221 Why Did You Come Back?

As Dominic moved to get into his car, Lucas instinctively started to follow.

Dominic paused. “I’m going home. You’re coming along?”

Lucas was stunned. “Huh? Are you actually going home? Seriously?”

That was unusual.

Given the chaos in the Hawthorne Manor recently, Dominic had been actively avoiding it.

“She moved back into the manor,” Dominic stated flatly.

Lucas was speechless for a second.

What? Aurelia moved back?

Suddenly, Lucas understood Dominic’s foul mood.

In Aurelia’s current state, moving back to the Hawthorne Manor definitely didn’t mean the family was giving heẞ:13

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It meant she was planning to turn the entire place upside down.

“Then I’m definitely not going,” Lucas said without

hesitation.

That manor was Aurelia’s battlefield now. Anyone who stepped in would just become collateral damage.

Before he could say more, Dominic’s car sped off.

Lucas watched it go.

Such a hurry? Things must be really bad.

Seeing Dominic leave, Lucas didn’t head out immediately. He turned and walked back into Hawthorne Group, pulling out his phone as he went.

The call connected. “What?”

“Hey, sweetheart. I brought you a gift from my business trip. Want me to bring it up, or will you come down?” he said.

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just with my boss. I think I’ll pass on the gift.”

Lucas’ eyebrow twitched. “Wait, what do you mean? What’s wrong with being with your boss?”

What did hanging out with Dominic have to do with anything?

“Character is questionable,” Alice replied simply.

“Hey, that’s not fair. He and I are two different people. Questioning him doesn’t mean you get to question me, too!”

“My mom says birds of a feather flock together.”

Lucas was rendered speechless.

Couldn’t she even tell good from bad on her own?

Before he could protest further, Alice hung up.

Listening to the dial tone, Lucas felt utterly defeated.

Was he being judged by association because of Dominic?

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He murmured, “This is so unfair. Dominic, seriously. How did you let your family affairs get this messed up?”

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Back at Hawthorne Manor, Aurelia was the picture of tranquility amidst the turmoil-eating, sleeping, and repeating. She was perhaps the only calm person in the entire household.

No matter how fiercely Eleanor, Lydia, and Lauren glared, they couldn’t get within ten feet of her.

Just then, Grant called.

“So, how was your day?” he asked, his tone light.

“Off to a winning start,” Aurelia replied with a smile.

“Well,” Grant smiled. “I heard.”

“How?” Aurelia asked, surprised.

Did he have eyes inside the Hawthorne Manor?

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Grant replied, “You made quite a scene today. Torched so many places at once-hard to miss.”

Aurelia chuckled softly at that.

“Feeling any better?” Grant asked, knowing the anger and grief over her mother’s death had been driving her.

Though she had thrown the entire household into chaos on her very first day back, Aurelia’s answer was firm. “No. It’s not enough.”

The scale of today’s trouble was significant, but for her, it fell far short.

“Then keep turning things upside down,” Grant said.

“Yeah. That’s the plan.”

Aurelia hadn’t moved back into the Hawthorne Manor just to burn down a few of their properties.

The Hawthorne family had loved taking things apart in the past, regardless of consent.

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themselves.

Aurelia chatted with Grant a while longer before hanging

She then turned to Gareth. “Was the blue diamond

shipped back to Sebastian?”

“Rest assured, Ms. Smith. It was sent by air freight,” Gareth said.

“And the production of the red diamond has begun?”

Gareth nodded. “Yes. With the finest craftsman

available.”

Aurelia nodded, satisfied, and said nothing more.

Dominic returned just as a servant was setting dinner on the table-a single place setting, for Aurelia alone.

Eleanor and the others were nowhere to be seen.

Taking in the crowd of unfamiliar faces in his own home, Dominic’s brow furrowed.

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only a second before she looked away and continued eating.

Dominic walked over and pulled out the chair opposite her, sitting down.

He was still in his black suit, his black shirt unbuttoned at the collar, and his tie missing, likely discarded in the

car.

Dominic lit a cigarette, took a drag, and asked, his tone deceptively calm, “Was lunch also just for one?”

“Do you have a problem with that?” Aurelia didn’t look up from her plate.

“Why did you come back?” Dominic’s voice cooled noticeably.

The subtext was clear to Aurelia. He was asking why she had returned if she wasn’t going to treat this place as her home.

And if it wasn’t her home, then there was no point in her being there at all.

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