Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 282

Chapter 282 What Was Worse

Hawthorne Group was drowning in problems. If Aurelia didn’t back off, things were only going to get worse for the Hawthorne family.

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“What do I want?” She let out a snort. “You don’t even know what happened, so what gives you the right to ask me that?”

Or maybe he just never believed any of it in the first place.

Fine. If he wouldn’t believe her, she’d burn it all down herself.

Dominic fell silent. Watching her like this made his chest tighten with dread.

Aurelia turned to head upstairs.

“What’s your connection to Smith Group?” Dominic’s voice stopped her.

He finally asked.

On the drive back, Dominic had convinced himself there was no way Aurelia could have any ties to Smith Group.

But now, he had to ask.

Smith Group was tearing into Hawthorne Group with vicious29

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It looked precisely like a coordinated assault. The perfect inside-outside trap, and it was suffocating him.

When Aurelia stayed silent, Dominic pressed harder. “Or are you involved with someone from Smith Group? Does Grant know about this?”

No, Grant knew.

Lydia had run straight to Grant after overhearing her phone call, and Grant’s response had been to hit Lydia.

Everything suddenly crashed together in Dominic’s mind and exploded like a bomb going off. His thoughts scattered in every direction.

Had Grant introduced her to someone at Smith Group?

Or had someone at Smith Group taken an interest in her, and

Grant had sold her out?

A thousand possibilities raced through his head.

His grip on Aurelia’s wrist tightened, and his breathing grew ragged. “What’s really going on between you and Grant? What the hell did he do to you?” Dominic could barely get the words

out.

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sleeping with some man in Germany.

That information completely destroyed any theory about Aurelia and Grant being together.

His voice turned sharp with suspicion. “Grant introduced you to someone at Smith Group, didn’t he?”

That was his conclusion now. Not a suspicion anymore, a certainty. Someone at Smith Group had wanted Aurelia.

Grant had maintained business ties with the Smith Group for

years.

So her connection to whoever it was at Smith Group had Grant’s fingerprints all over it.

Perfect. Grant was such a great friend.

Smith Group’s aggressive moves against Hawthorne Group these past few days suddenly made complete sense.

Aurelia glanced at Dominic and scoffed. “You’ve got some imagination.”

“You trust Grant that much? You follow everything he says? He could sell you out and you wouldn’t even know it.” Dominic was losing his mind.

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“He’d sell me out?” Aurelia shot back. “What about you?”

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“What about me?”

“The Hawthornes want me dead.”

Dominic fell silent. What was worse-being sold out or being killed?

Aurelia wasn’t about to explain anything to him. She wouldn’t waste her breath, not when he didn’t believe her anyway.

She yanked her hand free from his grip and headed for the stairs again.

Eleanor rushed down, panic written all over her face. “Lydia’s burning up with fever. She needs to go to the hospital.” She looked at Dominic desperately.

Dominic’s eyes immediately went to Aurelia when he heard that Lydia needed to go to the hospital.

But Aurelia’s expression was ice-cold. She kept walking upstairs without a word.

“Lift your restrictions,” Dominic demanded through gritted teeth. “We need to get to the hospital.”

Aurelia ignored him completely and disappeared up the stairs.

Dominic saw her attitude and panicked. “Aurelia!”

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she heard Dominic’s angry shout. “It’s just a fever. Why does she need to go to the hospital?”

Dominic was speechless.

Eleanor’s voice shook with rage. “You-you vicious woman, you’re just―”

Aurelia cut her off. “Lauren used to take up way too many medical resources with her depression and hospital visits. We can’t waste any more.”

She turned and walked into her room without another word.

Dominic and Eleanor stood frozen at the bottom of the stairs. They couldn’t believe what they’d just heard.

Eleanor turned to Dominic. “What does she mean by that? Is she saying Lauren was wrong to go to the hospital for depression? You see now, don’t you? She’s vicious.”

Eleanor was losing her mind.

Dominic’s thoughts spun back to what Lucas had told him. Lucas said Lauren’s depression hadn’t flared up in days.

That was true. But why?

He’d yelled at Lucas over the phone about it, but now Dominic

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couldn’t help wondering-why was that?

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Lauren’s depression had disappeared under Aurelia’s pressure? That didn’t make sense.

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