Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 43

Chapter 43 Just a Design?

The charred marks in the front yard were gone–the staff had scrubbed them clean.

Dominic dragged her inside by force.

Aurelia sat on the couch in stony silence, her face an icy mask.

Dominic twisted open a bottle of liquor and took two hard swigs, frustration rolling off him in waves.

“What else do you have?”

He meant against Lauren.

After yesterday and today’s chaos, whatever Aurelia was holding over Lauren’s head was giving him a migraine.

He never thought she’d be this ruthless.

And the way she manipulated public opinion?

It hit him like a freight train–she was nothing like the sweet, innocent little rabbit he thought she was.

Aurelia looked at him and let out a cold laugh.

“Plenty. How much are you offering?”

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Dominic’s gaze toward her turned glacial.

He poured himself another glass and downed it in one gulp.

“Why are you so hell–bent on destroying her? If it’s because I got too close to her these past six months–don’t. It’s

unnecessary.

“Nothing happened between us. If it bothers you that much, I’ll cut ties. Simple.”

His tone was breezy. Dismissive.

Aurelia actually laughed. “If it bothers me?”

Oh, that was rich. Like she’d only just started showing how pissed she was about him and Lauren in the last two days?

And now he wanted to cut ties? Just to get her to stop going

after Lauren?

Dominic’s brow furrowed as he glared at her.

Aurelia let out a cold laugh. “These past six months? Dominic, don’t flatter yourself.”

“Whether you two were screwing around or not? Not. My. Problem.”

Dominic’s face darkened like a storm cloud.

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She didn’t care anymore. That’s what she was saying. She was done with him.

God, she knew exactly how to twist the knife.

He set down his drink with a heavy thunk.

“Then what the hell has you this pissed off?”

Pissed off enough to turn all of New York upside down.

The entire Hawthorne family had been blindsided. None of them saw this coming—that Aurelia would go nuclear like this.

“Two years ago, she made me lose my baby,” Aurelia said, voice sharp as glass. “Isn’t that enough?”

Dominic: “…”

“Or what–you all expect me to play the saint? Someone kills my child and I’m supposed to just… forgive and forget?”

At the mention of the baby, something flickered in Dominic’s eyes. His voice dropped.

“That was a long time ago. And she didn’t do it on purpose.”

Aurelia’s jaw tightened. “Then what about her stealing my Maplecrest designs?”

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Dominic said nothing, Irritated, he grabbed the bottle again and poured himself another drink.

Aurelia’s voice shook. “Two years ago–I don’t care if she meant to or not–I lost my baby because of her!

“And at Hawthorne Manor, she pushed me. Dominic, all of this

–!”

“What, you’re saying she pushed you at the Manor and made. you miscarry?” His tone dripped with mockery.

Aurelia was about to snap back. Does Lauren even know she drew that design herself?

But the doubt in Dominic’s voice stopped her. No point in saying anything.

Then Dominic spoke again. “The design thing? Not her fault.”

Aurelia: “…”

“She had some paperwork deadline. Needed a design to go with it. I told her to use yours.”

“You told her to use it? What gave you the right? Did you design it?” Her fury reignited.

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you didn’t even care back then.”

The air went dead silent.

Aurelia stared at him, and suddenly realized–she’d never really known this man at all.

“Just a design? I almost died in that mudslide, Dominic! You’re calling it ‘just a design‘?

“And you think I didn’t care? What gives you the right to decide what I care about?”

Just a design.

You didn’t care.

What, she married him, and now he got to tell her what she was allowed to feel?

Screw this. Aurelia was done talking.

At the mention of the mudslide, Dominic’s expression flickered

-barely.

His mind flashed to finding Aurelia at the hospital, covered in mud.

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her for days…

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Aurelia stood up and headed straight for the door.

“Where the hell are you going now?” Dominic snapped.

She ignored him.

But when she reached the entrance and pulled the door open-

A wall of bodyguards stood outside.