Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 71

Chapter 71 We Aren’t Giving Her Anything

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Lydia was getting her bandages changed when Eleanor caught sight of the huge gash across her cheekbone. Her temper flared instantly.

Lydia reached for her phone, wanting to see the injury, but Eleanor grabbed her wrist. “Don’t look.”

But Lydia pulled away, ignoring her.

She unlocked her phone, opened the camera, and let out a blood-curdling scream the second she saw her reflection. “Ahhhh!”

Eleanor’s heart twisted at the sight of Lydia’s panic.

All of this, every bit of it, was Aurelia’s fault.

That woman is nothing but trouble, ruining everything in her path!

Lydia screamed, her voice shrill with rage. “You never should’ve let her marry Dominic! Look what she’s done! She’s finally showing her true colors!

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back all those things too!”

Lydia completely lost it.

The gash on her cheek was deep and ugly—she’d gotten several stitches after being rushed to the hospital last night. A wound that bad would leave a permanent scar, no doubt about it.

The thought of the scar made her even angrier. “I’ll never forgive her! Never!”

“Calm down,” Eleanor comforted. “You’ll tear your stitches open if you keep acting like this.”

Lydia’s hysteria pounded in Eleanor’s head like a relentless drumbeat.

Speaking of stitches, she remembered Lauren’s wound had been acting up for days. Today, she’d even jumped into the

river.

And as if that weren’t enough, Marilyn had been beaten, all because of Aurelia.

She’s a curse on the Hawthorne family!

Lydia didn’t care about any of that. She swatted the sterilized

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“Get out! Get the hell out of here!”

The nurse jumped, terrified, but didn’t dare argue.

She scurried toward the door as Eleanor waved her away. “You can leave.”

“Thank you, ma’am,” the nurse mumbled, hurrying out.

As soon as the door closed, Lydia swept her arm across the bedside table, sending everything crashing to the floor. The sound of shattering filled the room.

“I’m never giving her back a single thing,” Lydia snarled. “She can forget it.”

Give Aurelia back the stuff she’d taken? Not a chance.

Everything she’d snatched from that woman was hers now, and she wasn’t letting go.

Eleanor nodded, her face hard. “You’re right. We aren’t giving her anything. Dominic hurt you like this because of her. We owe her nothing.”

Eleanor was furious, too.

Sure, Dominic was the one who hit Lydia with the ashtray, but

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Last night, they went to confront her about Marilyn’s house burning down, and before they could even get a word in, things escalated to this.

“She’s finally dropped the act,” Lydia spat. “All that ‘I don’t care about money or status’ garbage? Total lies. She’s just after the Hawthorne fortune.”

“So we definitely can’t give her anything back,” Eleanor agreed, her voice grim.

She pretended she didn’t want any of this before; now she can’t have it.

Just as Lydia was about to add something, Eleanor’s phone rang. It was Jason.

Eleanor answered, her voice sharp with irritation. “What

now?”

Jason’s voice was respectful on the other end. “Madam Hawthorne, are you and Ms. Lydia Hawthorne at the hospital? I’m on my way over with a lawyer.”

A lawyer?

Eleanor’s temper exploded. “What for?”

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said.

Eleanor scoffed. “Tell Dominic to forget it. If Aurelia didn’t care about our money before, she sure as hell isn’t getting any

of it now.”

She hung up without waiting for a response, her hands shaking with anger. “Unbelievable! This is absolutely infuriating!”

Aurelia had played the innocent, plain Jane for years, and now she was desperate to reclaim everything?

“That’s all this is about,” Eleanor snorted. “All the chaos she’s stirring up is just to get everything back.”

Lydia nodded furiously.

Aurelia had finally torn off her hypocritical mask.

The phone rang again. Jason’s number once more.

Eleanor answered, even angrier than before. “I told you, it’s impossible! We aren’t giving her anything!”

“What if giving it back makes the media storm die down?”

It was Jason’s number, but the cold voice that came through

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Eleanor’s breath hitched. “What? Are we supposed to give in to her demands now?”

She’s just some nobody with no background. Are we really letting her push us around?

“If we don’t,” Dominic said flatly, “you know what happens

next.”

Eleanor fell silent, her rage choking her. She couldn’t even vent properly-Dominic was right, and she hated it.

Dominic’s voice turned even more intimidating. “Jason is on his way with the lawyer. Just sign the papers.”

Eleanor gritted her teeth so hard her jaw ached. “Once we sign, the media will back off? Is that a promise?”

She’d underestimated Aurelia, big time.

When had she gotten mixed up with Grant?

She’d heard about it when she got back; if Grant hadn’t shown up at Oakridge Estate today, Aurelia would’ve died there.

How long had they been involved? They had no clue at all.

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