Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 247

Chapter 247 I Want the Hawthorne Group

Then Aurelia finally spoke, and her words made Eleanor’s blood run cold. “I want the entire Hawthorne Group.”

Eleanor froze and couldn’t even respond.

Her mind went blank, and a sharp pain shot through her skull, like thousands of ants suddenly crawling inside her head and tearing everything apart.

“The entire Hawthorne Group? How dare you even ask for that?” Eleanor’s voice shook with rage.

Aurelia had some nerve, demanding the entire Hawthorne Group.

Eleanor had always said Aurelia was a curse on the Hawthorne family, but Dominic never believed her. Now it was obvious she’d been right all along.

Aurelia stood up and looked at Eleanor with cold eyes. “Are you giving it to me or not?”

“In your dreams,” Eleanor said through clenched teeth.

The entire Hawthorne Group? Was she out of her mind? The Hawthorne Group had been built by Dominic’s grandrather1:15

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and passed down through the generations.

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Darren had expanded it, and now it was in Dominic’s hands.

This was decades of the Hawthorne family’s legacy, and she wanted all of it? What would that make their ancestors’ hard work? Nothing?

If they couldn’t protect the Hawthorne Group, they might as well lose the entire Hawthorne family name. Once Hawthorne Group became Aurelia’s, they’d be the biggest traitors in Hawthorne family history.

Lydia stared at Aurelia in disbelief.

“Who the hell do you think you are?” Lydia snapped. “You want the Hawthorne Group? You’re not even worthy of it.”

She’d been holding back for days because Aurelia’s people kept threatening to get physical, but now her patience had run out entirely.

Was this some kind of joke? If they handed over the entire Hawthorne Group to Aurelia, what would they be left with? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Aurelia crossed her arms. “Not gonna give it to me? Fine. Then I’ll just keep being the lady of the Hawthorne family.”

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Eleanor and Lydia stood there, speechless.

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The words ‘lady of the Hawthorne family’ hit Eleanor like a slap, and her face went dark with rage.

Lydia’s temper flared, and she practically stomped her foot. “What lady? My mom’s still alive, you know!”

“When you’re old, you should retire gracefully,” Aurelia said coolly.

Eleanor and Lydia both went silent, their expressions darkening even further.

Retire? She had the nerve to say ‘retire’ after everything she’d pulled in the last two days? After all the chaos she’d caused, she dared to stand there talking about graceful retirement like she cared about anyone but herself.

Lydia’s voice shook with anger. “You want my mom to retire? After what you’ve done to her since yesterday?”

She was beyond furious now, her hands clenched at her sides.

Eleanor felt the same rage building inside her chest. The entire Hawthorne household had been turned upside down since yesterday, and this woman dared to talk about retirement?

“Since I’m the lady of this house,” Aurelia said, her tone sharp and deliberate, “everything will be done according to my rules. Of course-”

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She paused, and her gaze shifted directly to Eleanor, pinning her in place.

Eleanor felt a chill run down her spine under that cold,

calculating stare, and her heart started racing for all the wrong

reasons.

The next moment, Aurelia spoke up, “I’ll be keeping all the rules you set before.”

Those rules Eleanor had created were explicitly designed to make Aurelia’s life miserable.

And now she was saying she’d enforce those same rules?

That meant she was going to make everyone’s life hell.

Eleanor’s vision went dark. “Get out of the Hawthorne family. This isn’t your home.”

“Just because you say so?” Aurelia shot back. “Let’s not waste time on pointless arguments. I’m Dominic’s wife, so how is this not my home?”

“You two are getting divorced,” Eleanor said.

Aurelia shrugged. “Haven’t divorced yet, have we?”

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That one phrase, “haven’t divorced yet”, left them completely powerless against her.

Eventually, Eleanor and Lydia dragged themselves upstairs, fuming, and headed straight to Lauren’s room.

Lauren had collapsed onto the bed the moment she got back and didn’t want to move an inch.

Her legs were killing her.

Lydia and Eleanor weren’t doing much better. Their legs didn’t even feel like their own anymore.

The pain was excruciating, and the ache went deep into their muscles.

Lydia let out a frustrated sigh. “What are we supposed to do now? We can’t kick her out, and we can’t even make things

difficult for her.”

Eleanor closed her eyes and took a breath, trying to calm herself. “That’s exactly why you need to focus on Grant. We need him on our side.”

“How am I supposed to reach Grant?” Lydia shot back.

“You saw what happened. She won’t even let us use the cars anymore.”

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None of them had seen that coming.

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They never expected Aurelia to be this ruthless, to go them even over something as small as transportation.

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Now they couldn’t even leave the house without trouble.

What was her endgame here?

It was obvious. She wanted them trapped at the Hawthorne Manor, miserable and helpless. Their suffering was her satisfaction.

Eleanor stared at Lydia, speechless.

Lauren’s expression mirrored her shock.

Lydia’s words hung in the air, and the reality of their situation hit them all at once.

She was right. Without access to the cars, how was Lydia supposed to meet with Grant?

“That vindictive witch,” Eleanor muttered under her breath. “She’s absolutely heartless.”

They didn’t dare say these things to Aurelia’s face anymore- not after seeing how vicious she could be.

And her people were just as ruthless.

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“Use the Drake family’s car,” Lauren said.

Hearing Lauren say this made Eleanor feel a bit better, and Lydia breathed a sigh of relief too.

But then a thought hit her. “Given all the awful things that woman has done, she probably won’t let the car come to the Hawthorne Manor, right?”

At most, the car would wait at the same spot where they’d gotten dropped off today.

So if she wanted to go see Grant now, she’d have to walk all the way out there, and when she came back, she’d have to walk all the way back in again?

Lauren seemed to read the worry on Lydia’s face.

“If you can win Grant over in one meeting, then you won’t have to suffer anymore,” Lauren said. “But if you keep failing to win him over-”

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