Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 222

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To spell it out, he was implying her actions were completely out of line.

After being married to Dominic for years, how could Aurelia not understand the meaning hidden behind his words?

Aurelia let out a cold laugh. “I’d be willing to have my people prepare the meals. The real question is… Would they dare to eat it?”

Dominic fell silent.

His heart sank.

Their eyes met. Aurelia’s gaze was filled with mocking amusement, while Dominic’s was utterly frigid.

His breathing was heavy. “Tell me. What is your real reason for coming back here?”

It was obvious that the Hawthorne Manor had been turned upside down in a single day.

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Dominic’s patience had worn thin

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With the company in crisis and now his home in chaos, all his previous restraint toward Aurelia had transformed into sheer anger.

Watching the amusement slowly fade from Aurelia’s eyes only fueled Dominic’s rage further. “Is this about not wanting the divorce anymore? If you don’t, then come back to Westchester County with me.”

“Westchester County isn’t the Hawthorne Manor,” Aurelia replied lightly.

“What are you getting at?”

“I’m simply pointing out that as your wife, as part of the Hawthorne family, I naturally have the right to choose to live here at the Hawthorne Manor, don’t I?”

Dominic had no response.

Aurelia continued, “Weren’t they always so eager for me to come back before? Aside from holidays, they’d call all the time when you were at work, summoning me back.

“So? Now that I’m actually here, they’re unhappy? I thought this was perfect. They loved having me come, 3:13

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back to serve them. So now I’m just moving in to do exactly that.”

Hearing the word “serve,” Dominic took another heavy drag from his cigarette. “Since when have you ever been this obedient?”

Before? He sneered.

Eleanor had demanded plenty of things back then, and Aurelia had never listened.

Back then, everyone said a woman of her status marrying into the Hawthorne family would be completely under their thumb.

Eleanor had believed it, too.

At the very beginning, she had even ordered Aurelia to return to the manor every single day to cook lunch.

And what had Aurelia done?

She’d treated it like background noise. She hadn’t even pretended to comply for a few days-she couldn’t be 39thered with the act.

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Dominic asked, “You never listened to a word they said before. Why start now?”

“Because I feel like listening now.” Aurelia shrugged. “Being your wife is so difficult. When I didn’t listen, were all unhappy. Now that I’m listening, you’re still unhappy. So hard to please.”

Dominic could only stare in silence.

Eleanor and Lydia, having heard Dominic was back, rushed to the manor.

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They met Lauren at the entrance and walked in together just in time to catch Aurelia’s final remark-“so hard to please.”

The words nearly sent Eleanor into cardiac arrest on the

spot.

Her hand trembled as she pointed a finger at Aurelia. “I’m hard to please? Is this what you call serving me?”

After the torment she’d put them through all day, she dared to call it “service”?

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without batting an eye?

Eleanor was so furious she swayed on her feet, nearly fainting.

“I brought this whole team of people back specifically to serve you all. Isn’t that sincere enough?” Aurelia asked, her tone innocent.

Eleanor, Lydia, and Lauren were speechless.

Dominic simply watched.

Aurelia’s tone turned sharp. “I came back with the genuine intention to serve, and you won’t even allow it. I was merely checking if the food prepared outside was up to standard for you, and you refused to eat it.

“If that’s not being ‘hard to please,’ then what is?”

Eleanor exploded, her voice shrill. “You. That wasn’t ‘checking’. You were clearly poisoning it.”

She was practically jumping with rage..

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a shameless woman!

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They had been starved all day, and Aurelia had caused. endless trouble.

And now she had the nerve to play the virtuous role in

front of Dominic, claiming she’d brought people to serve them.

The sheer audacity was breathtaking.

Aurelia turned her gaze directly to Dominic. “You hear that?”

Seeing her address Dominic so pointedly, Eleanor’s heart lurched with dread.

What is she trying to do?

Dominic shot a look laden with restrained anger at Eleanor and Lydia. Even the glance he spared for Lauren was cold.

“You… you’re twisting facts,” Eleanor spluttered, turning to Dominic. “Dominic, don’t listen to her lies. When you weren’t here, she was nothing like this.”

Hypocrite!

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Since when did Aurelia learn to act like this?

Before, she’d been incapable of pretending, even when explaining things to Dominic-her words were always stiff and blunt.

Now, with a few well-chosen sentences, she made it sound like they were the villains.

Eleanor added, “And all those properties the family lost today-that was all her doing. Mark my words, I won’t let this matter rest.”

Those beautiful houses, all in prime locations, each a standalone villa worth tens of millions of dollars-all

gone.

Everything under her name, under Lydia’s, under

Lauren’s-all vanished.

In one day, a massive chunk of the Hawthorne family’s real estate portfolio had gone up in smoke, leaving only the Hawthorne Manor.

If they let Aurelia stay, she might burn the place down with them sleeping inside.

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Aurelia sighed dramatically, “You really do blame me for everything, don’t you?”

Then she looked back at Dominic, her gaze steady. “They say I set the fires. What do you think?”

Their eyes locked once more.

In that moment, Aurelia tossed the loaded question straight to him.

He was always so trusting-so quick to believe others—

wasn’t he?

Before, whatever Lauren said, he believed.

If she claimed something, Dominic accepted it as the truth.

So what about now? Would he believe them this time?

Aurelia watched Dominic in silence.

Dominic just frowned.

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