Billionaire’s Regret After Losing Her (Aurelia) novel Chapter 98

Chapter 98 The Vicious Mom

Eleanor’s chest tightened. Her lips pressed into a thin line, and her eyes looked as if they wanted to devour Aurelia whole.

She remembered now.

No matter how much she had tried to make things difficult for Aurelia in the past, Aurelia had never allowed her to actually strike her.

Whatever Eleanor said, Aurelia usually listened, or at least appeared to.

But the moment Eleanor tried to lay a hand on her, Aurelia became someone else entirely.

That was likely one of the reasons Eleanor had never liked her over the years.

Because she looked soft on the surface, yet inside lived a soul with fangs.

And Eleanor hated being resisted.

Especially by someone she considered beneath her.

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The instant Eleanor had tried to hit her, Dominic had kicked a servant aside and moved forward.

But when Aurelia grabbed Eleanor’s wrist and spoke those cutting words, he stopped in his tracks.

Aurelia curled her lips into a cold, mocking smile. “You slapped your own son and still want to hit me. That is one vicious way to be a mother.”

“You… Shut up!” Eleanor screamed.

“All these years, you have tried to lay hands on me more than once,” Aurelia said evenly. “When have I ever let you touch me?”

Eleanor fell silent.

Dominic fell silent as well.

When Aurelia said “more than once”, something twisted painfully in Dominic’s chest.

He had not known. He truly had not known how far Eleanor had gone in tormenting Aurelia.

Taking away the things he gave her had been, in his mind, the

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He had never imagined that it went beyond words, that it had escalated to physical confrontation.

No wonder she was so resolute about divorce this time.

At that moment, Dominic suddenly realized that even without Grant, Aurelia probably would have asked for a divorce

anyway.

Everyone in the Hawthorne family had been hostile toward her.

When they lived together, the elders humiliated her verbally and repeatedly tried to hit her.

After they moved out, they seized everything he had given her.

Dominic closed his eyes briefly.

He strode forward, grabbed Aurelia’s wrist again, and shoved her back into the car.

As he moved around to get into the driver’s seat, Eleanor blocked his way. “You saw it yourself,” she said sharply. “She shows no respect for me at all. Do you really want a woman like that?”

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She had always known that beneath Aurelia’s gentle exterior was a spine that could never be bent.

But she had never imagined that Aurelia would dare to incite Dominic to storm into Hawthorne Manor and cause this kind

of chaos.

Burning Hawthorne Manor?

If Aurelia had succeeded, what would the Hawthorne family have become?

“I do,” Dominic replied calmly. “Why would I not?”

“She is a disaster,” Eleanor shouted. “Are you blind? Can you not see that?”

“She was not like this before,” Dominic said.

Eleanor froze.

The air went utterly still.

Eleanor felt her vision darken with rage. “What do you mean by that? Are you saying I forced her to become this way? Dominic, I am your mother. Do you hear yourself?”

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And because of Dominic’s defiance, her hatred for Aurelia only deepened.

“She has thrown the Hawthorne family into chaos. Lauren’s wounds keep reopening, and the public backlash hasn’t even subsided. This is where we are now, and you still want her? What for? To let her continue dismantling everything we’ve built?”

“She used to be very sweet,” Dominic said.

Eleanor was speechless.

Amid her fury, Dominic dropped that single sentence with unsettling calm, then turned, and got into the car.

He drove away with Aurelia.

Although the fire was never lit, Eleanor was so enraged that she fainted on the spot.

The car had barely left when Hawthorne Manor erupted into

chaos.

“Ma’am? Quick, call an ambulance!”

The butler urgently ordered someone to make the call.

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The air was thick with tension, and with the lingering stench of gasoline Dominic had left behind.

Inside the car, Dominic instinctively reached for Aurelia’s hand.

She pulled away immediately.

His hand closed on empty air.

It felt as if something inside his chest had been torn away, leaving a hollow ache.

“During that year we lived together, she often tried to hit you?”

Before their marriage reached its second year, they had lived at

Hawthorne Manor.

Dominic spent his days at the company.

When he returned home in the evenings, he had never noticed anything out of place.

As for the conflicts between Aurelia and the Hawthorne elders, he had thought they only began after she lost her first child.

It

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separately.

Only now, after hearing her say “more than once”, did he realize that behind the calm facade of those evenings lay countless daytime confrontations he had never seen.

And he truly had not known.

He had believed that her conflicts with the elders started only after they moved out.

That decision alone had already angered the family elders.

Aurelia kept wiping the hand that had grabbed Eleanor with a wet tissue.

Her expression was flat, yet filled with undisguised disgust.

Seeing her remain silent, Dominic asked again, “Why did you never tell me when those things happened?”

“Tell you?” Aurelia replied coolly. “Once an outsider shows up and the household turns chaotic, would you not have sided with them and said I was being unreasonable?”

Dominic said nothing.

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