Marry Ex's Billionaire Uncle After Divorce (Aurora and Jasper) novel Chapter 102

Chapter 68: Jasper Felt Regretful

(Author’s POV)

Victoria had been waiting ten days for Aurora’s call.

She’d been so certain of it. The agreement had been airtight – Aurora surrenders her claim to the marital assets, and Sienna cooperates with the bone marrow donation to save Leo. Victoria had gone to the hospital herself, laid it out plainly, given Aurora every opportunity to do the sensible thing. And then she’d waited.

Nothing. Not a word. Not a single message.

By the fifth day, Victoria had started telling herself that Aurora was cold. Calculating. The kind of woman who would let her own brother suffer rather than give up money she hadn’t earned. By the tenth day, she’d run out of charitable interpretations entirely.

That evening, she sat at the dining table and watched Sienna ladle soup into Jasper’s bowl with quiet, practiced care. The gesture was tender. Domestic. It soothed something in Victoria, the picture of it – her son being looked after properly, finally, by someone who

understood what that meant.

She couldn’t quite stop herself.

“You need to take better care of yourself, Jasper,” she said, setting down her napkin. “Don’t let yourself run down. Not like some people’s brothers, putting everyone through the wringer.”

Sienna said nothing. She just set the bowl down in front of Jasper and smiled softly.

Jasper’s brow tightened. Just slightly.

Victoria pressed on. “That woman is unbelievable. I went to the hospital myself. Myself. I sat down with her and made her a perfectly reasonable offer – Sienna donates, Aurora walks

away from the settlement. Simple. Clean. And she just – refused. Didn’t even think about it.”

Jasper said nothing. His chopsticks – his fork – was still in his hand. He hadn’t started eating.

Victoria turned toward Rosalind, who was sitting beside her, picking at her food. She put a hand on the girl’s shoulder and looked at her seriously.

“Rosalind, listen to me. A woman who would make a choice like that – who would put money above her own family – that is not a mother. You don’t need to call her that. You don’t need to think of her that way.”

Jasper set his fork down.

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The sound of it against the plate was flat and deliberate.

“When?” he said.

Victoria looked at him.

“When did you go to the hospital.” His voice was low. “And why didn’t you tell me.”

“I was trying to handle it for you. You were already dealing with – ”

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“You went behind my back.” He wasn’t shouting. That was almost worse. “You made an agreement using Sienna’s medical cooperation as leverage, and you didn’t tell me.” His eyes were dark. “Mom. What agreement?”

Jasper read through the agreement twice.

The second time was slower. More deliberate. His jaw tightened with each line.

He set it down on the table and looked at his mother. “This is out of line.”

“I had a lawyer look at it,” Victoria said. “It’s not unreasonable. It’s a fair trade.”

“You used a bone marrow donation as a bargaining chip.”

“I used the *situation* as leverage. There’s a difference.” She crossed her arms. “Jasper, she humiliated you in public. She hired Gavin Sterling and had you served with court papers. That woman is not trying to work things out – she’s trying to take everything she can get. So tell me, why are you still protecting her?”

Jasper’s breathing was tight. He didn’t answer right away.

The frustrating part was that his mother wasn’t entirely wrong. Aurora had retained Sterling. She had filed. She had drawn the line in the sand with both hands, and she hadn’t looked back

once.

But this was different.

“She was my wife,” he said, his voice low. “Whatever happened between us – using someone’s life to force their hand is not the same thing. That’s not a negotiation. That’s a threat.”

“It’s practical.”

“It’s wrong.” He pushed back from the table and grabbed his jacket off the back of his chair. “I’m going to the hospital.”

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Chapter 68 Jasper Felt Regretful

“Jasper –”

“She needs to hear from me directly that I had nothing to do with this.”

Sienna’s voice came softly from across the table. “It’s almost ten.”

He stopped.

“She might not even be there anymore,” Sienna said. She wasn’t pushing. She never pushed directly. Her voice was gentle, almost apologetic. “It’s late. You’d be driving all that way for nothing.”

Jasper stood there with his jacket half on.

He knew Sienna was probably right. And he knew, somewhere underneath the logic, that he was also looking for a reason to stay.

Then Rosalind came running from the hallway. She’d been in the living room, supposedly watching television, but she’d clearly been listening to the edges of the argument the way children do not understanding the words but reading the tension perfectly.

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She threw her arms around his leg. “Daddy. Don’t go.”

He looked down at her.

“Please,” she said. “Stay home tonight. Please.”

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