Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 269

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Chapter 269 Grant Nearly Kills Lydia

Five minutes later, Lydia stood in Grant’s office and watched him sit behind his desk in a tailored suit. He didn’t even look up from his documents, but his presence filled the room with an intimidating force.

Lydia swallowed hard.

She approached his desk and lifted her eyes to meet his gaze. His stare was dark and piercing.

Even though Lydia had grown up in the Hawthorne family and dealt with influential people her entire life, Grant’s cold expression made her throat go dry.

She swallowed again before speaking. “I heard Aurelia on the phone today,” Lydia said. “She was talking to some guy from Germany. She told him that once things wrapped up here in New York, she’d go back to Germany. Do you know what that means?”

Grant’s eyes narrowed slightly. “What does it mean?” he

asked.

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“She’s using you,” Lydia said, her voice rising with desperation. “She lied to you and manipulated you into going after the Hawthorne family. She’s playing games with multiple men, and she doesn’t actually care about you at all.”

She met Grant’s skeptical gaze and felt panic rise in her

chest.

But when Lydia hurled those vicious insults at Aurelia, Grant’s eyes turned ice-cold in an instant.

Lydia caught the shift in his expression.

She assumed Grant was finally seeing Aurelia’s true colors, and her heart soared with vindictive satisfaction.

She pressed on, her voice dripping with venom. “That bitch is using you while sleeping with her lover in Germany, and she still won’t divorce Dominic. She wants to have her cake and eat it too.”

She leaned closer, her tone deliberately sharp. “So tell me, are you really going to keep helping her? Protecting her?”

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he said nothing.

Watching his expression grow colder and more dangerous by the second, Lydia felt her confidence surge.

Men always preferred women who stayed loyal to them.

Dominic had only clung to Aurelia because he didn’t know about her dirty secrets.

Now that she’d been tangled up with Grant for so long, even Dominic wanted the divorce.

And now that Grant was hearing the truth from her own lips, forget about protecting Aurelia.

He’d probably tear her apart himself.

Watching Grant’s face darken with fury, Lydia twisted the knife deeper. “I heard it with my own ears. She was on the phone telling him she missed him.”

She emphasized those last words, making sure Grant caught every syllable.

Let the rage burn. Let it consume everything until there’s

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nothing left of Aurelia but ashes.

Lydia’s mind wandered to how Aurelia had burned down so many of the Hawthorne family’s properties recently.

She had some nerve, bold enough to deceive even Grant himself.

She dared to lie to Grant.

Too bad she couldn’t handle what came next when his wrath finally came down on her.

“That bitch has been lying to you this whole time,” Lydia said, her voice dripping with venom. “She’s been using your name to act like she owns the Hawthorne family.”

Each time Lydia spat out the word “bitch,” Grant’s expression turned more sullen.

Just as Lydia opened her mouth to repeat it. “That bitch

Something flew through the air and hit her square in the forehead before she could even blink.

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The object struck her with a solid thunk that echoed in the room.

Lydia didn’t even register what had happened at first. She just felt the impact rattle through her skull like her brain had been scrambled.

Something warm and metallic-smelling trickled down from her forehead.

She instinctively reached up and touched the spot. Her palm came away wet and sticky. When she looked down at her hand, her vision blurred.

Blood. So much blood.

“You!” Lydia stared at Grant in disbelief, her voice shaking.

“The Hawthorne family is supposed to be one of New York’s top families,” Grant said coldly. “And you’re supposed to be their daughter. Where the hell are your manners?”

Lydia couldn’t find words.

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“Is this how your mother raised you?” Grant asked, his tone cutting.

Lydia’s breath caught in her throat. “No, that’s not-I was just so angry. I hate her. I hate that she deceived you and played you for a fool.”

She stared at Grant, her mind racing.

What was he doing? Why was he still defending Aurelia?

Aurelia had manipulated him and made him look like an idiot, and he was still protecting her?

Lydia pressed on, her voice rising. “Or don’t you believe me? If you don’t, we can go to Hawthorne Manor right now and confront her face to face. You can hear for

yourself that she was on the phone with some man from Germany today, telling him she missed him.”

She watched Grant continue to shield Aurelia even now, and resentment burned through her chest.

How could he protect Aurelia like this? Wasn’t this a betrayal? He was still defending a woman who had betrayed him. So what did that make her?

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She had come all this way just to tell him the truth.

Thinking of all the humiliation she had endured these past days because of that woman, tears instantly welled up in Lydia’s eyes.

“Yes, I have no manners,” she said, her voice shaking. “But she drove me to this. Do you even know how arrogant she’s become at the Hawthorne family because of you? She threw all my belongings out of my room.

“And now you’re hitting me for a woman who betrayed you?” Lydia had completely lost control.

Even in this moment, she didn’t forget to remind Grant again and again that Aurelia had betrayed him.

“She never divorced Dominic,” Lydia spat out. “And now she has a lover in Germany. So what does that make you? Is your heart really that forgiving? She has a husband and a lover. Where do you fit in all this?”

The instant those words left her mouth, she barely saw Grant move before he was right in front of her.

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His large hand closed around her slender neck, and Lydia felt all the air leave her lungs.

Everything in front of her began to blur.

Grant’s grip was crushing, and she could feel murderous intent radiating from him like he was about to snap her

neck.

The killing rage in his eyes made her think she was about to die right there.

Lydia’s survival instinct kicked in, and she grabbed Grant’s powerful wrist. “No-”

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