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All Chapters of Mr Billionaire's Regret: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1 Aria Blake ~•~ “He’s not coming back… should I just refrigerate the food for you?” The maid’s voice dragged me out of my thoughts. It was two days after my husband and I’s wedding anniversary. We had been married for three years. Initially, things were going great between us, but all of a sudden, he switched. I’d been trying to talk to him, so we could fix things but he had been so adamant and uninterested. For our anniversary, he didn’t do anything, and I didn’t acknowledge it either. I gave him a few days, hoping he would apologize for ignoring it or do something special for us. But there was nothing. So I decided to spend the entire day cooking and set up a romantic dinner date for us at home. It was almost midnight and he hadn’t returned to the house. That was really weird because even if things had been rocky between us, Julian had never spent the night outside the house without telling me first. “Don’t worry,” I finally replied to the maid. “Maybe he’s havin

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Chapter 2Aria Blake ~•~ Tears rolled down my face as I scrolled away and dialed his number. This time it didn’t go to voicemail, the phone was ringing. But Julian was ignoring me intentionally. My chest was tight. After everything we had been through, I couldn’t believe that he would do something like that to me. At least, he could have had the decency to tell me he was done before messing around with his ex-girlfriend. I felt so embarrassed and humiliated. I couldn’t even read the comments on that post. I didn’t want to see anything that would make me feel worse. After several failed attempts to reach him, a broken scream tore out of me as I threw my phone across the room.Heartbroken was an understatement. It felt like someone was ripping out my heart from my chest. Julian left me for his ex-girlfriend. God. It still felt like a terrible nightmare. I needed to wake up from it. I kept crying and was lost in my thoughts until I drifted off to sleep. The next morning, I w

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Chapter 3Aria Blake ~•~ “Divorce papers… they’re divorce papers,” Julian replied as he took off his tie. “This isn’t working anymore and it’s best that we go our separate ways.” My eyelids twitched. “This isn’t working anymore?” I repeated with a hint of amusement and confusion in my voice. “Is that the excuse you’re really giving to me right now?” It was hard to believe that my husband would get divorce papers without talking to me about it first. Did I even mean anything to him? Julian didn’t look at me. “Just sign the papers, Aria. It’s best that we go our own separate ways.” I froze for a moment, trying to process what was happening. “How long have you been planning this?” I finally asked. “Why wouldn’t you talk to me about it first? Why do you want to put me in such a terrible situation?” He let out a sharp exhale. “There was nothing to talk about, Aria. We don’t love each other anymore and we can’t continue acting like everything is okay.” I pressed a hand to my foreh

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Chapter 4Julian Cross ~•~ As I stood there looking at her, I couldn’t help but wonder how we got to this point. Everything was perfect between us. I loved her genuinely and I thought she felt the same way about me but I was wrong. Aria was talking like she was innocent. Of course, she would paint herself as the perfect wife with no flaws. If I didn’t know her too well, I would have fallen for lies. But I could finally see through her. “Mistake? Was getting married to me a mistake?” she asked, her voice almost breaking. God. She was such a good actress. “Yes, Aria. It was a mistake.” I was tired of telling her to sign the divorce papers. I was sick of repeating myself. Why wouldn’t she just listen to me and sign it, so we would go our separate ways and she would be free to do whatever the hell she wanted to do with her life. “Wow,” she muttered under her breath. “Wow.” I didn’t say anything. I just took off my shirt and placed it inside the laundry basket. I had a long ni

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Chapter 5Aria Blake ~•~ Why did Julian say I ruined the marriage? What the hell did I do to warrant such an accusation from him? The only thing I’d done in the past weeks was to fight for us. But what did I get in return? Divorce papers with a baseless accusation. I ran a hand through my hair. “What exactly did I do, Julian? And don’t say it’s nothing because if you can accuse me, you might as well say what I did.” Julian looked at me for a few quiet seconds as though he was studying my face. I held his gaze, waiting in anticipation to hear what he had to say. Before he could respond, the buzzing of his phone interrupted us. From the expression on his face, I could tell that he was relieved that the call came right at that moment. My eyebrows furrowed as he reached for his phone. “We are having a conversation right now, you don’t have to answer the call right now.” He dismissed what I said and stood up immediately. While I was still talking, he walked out of the room to tak

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Chapter 6Julian Cross ~•~ “Sir, the investors are not happy with the trending headlines about you. And they will be forced to pull out their money from the company.” I pressed a hand to my forehead as I listened to the head of the PR team talk about how the news of my ex and me was causing problems for the company. “So what do you want me to do?” I asked, my voice filled with exhaustion. “I’m not the one making the posts.” He didn’t hesitate. “You have to make them know that those are just rumors and you didn’t cheat on your wife with your ex-girlfriend,” he replied carefully. “Especially now that we have this deal with the foreign company.”I was running an investment firm. And a lot of the investors cared about optics. Being associated with any scandal would risk so many things for me. “I can’t control the narratives people put out there,” I said with a groan. “So what exactly are you saying?” He let out a sharp exhale. “People are only talking about it because of the pictu

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Chapter 7Aria Blake ~•~ In the past, I could read my husband like an open book. But right now, it felt like I was living with a stranger. I didn’t know him anymore. And I had no idea how we got to that point. I was certain that we wouldn't even need to go through the whole divorce process if he would just quit beating around the bush and tell me the exact reason why he wanted the divorce. The worst part was that he asked me to hold off on signing it a few minutes later. I was genuinely confused. At first, I didn’t want to let go of the papers when he asked for them, but I honestly didn’t want to get a divorce either. And maybe I could use that time to figure out why he wanted to end the marriage. When Julian left the room, I didn’t go after him. I decided to give him space. But I couldn’t stay in the house either. So I called my best friend and asked her if she wanted to spend the day together. I needed a distraction from everything. Fortunately enough, she decided to hang

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Chapter 8Julian Cross ~•~ “So you are really going to go through with the divorce?” Cole asked as we stepped into the elevator. The workday was over, and we were heading back home. Cole felt like I wasn’t serious about what I had said, or maybe he didn’t want to watch me ruin my marriage and was looking for a way to fix it. I chuckled, even though nothing about my problems was funny. “Did Aria ask you to beg on her behalf?” I asked, giving him a skeptical look. He shook his head quickly. “No, she didn’t,” he answered. “She even called me the other night but I didn’t answer. I wasn’t looking to get into the middle of your drama.” “Better.” “But you are really doing this? I know how much you love that woman.” I sighed. “People aren’t always who you think they are, and you can’t blame me for making this decision,” I said solemnly. Cole looked at me with sympathy. “Yeah, I guess so.” I nodded. “Yeah… after we appear as a loving couple at this charity gala and close the new dea

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Chapter 9Aria Blake ~•~ I spent two hours trying to get to sleep, but I couldn’t drift off to sleep. So I decided to go to the living room and put on the television. My eyes were glued to the screen but I couldn’t hear or understand what was happening. My mind was somewhere else. Julian. He hadn’t come back home. I forced myself to stay calm, but it felt like I was about to lose my mind. I kept wondering what he was doing. Who the hell was he with? Was he with his ex? The suspense was killing me. Was I even ready for the answer? As I sat down on the couch, my gaze darted over to our picture frame that was on the wall. We were both smiling, and Julian had his arm around me. It was taken just three months ago, but looking at it now felt like staring at a relic from a different lifetime. The silence of the penthouse was deafening. The place I once loved and called home now felt like torture. I was still tangled in my thoughts when the front door creaked open. I looked up s

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Chapter 10Aria Blake ~•~ I didn’t sleep in our shared bedroom. I spent the night in an empty room. I was even surprised that I’d gotten any sleep the previous night. When I woke up, I got out of bed and made my way to the bathroom. I splashed water on my face, then I looked up at the mirror. My eyes were red and puffy. I looked like a mess. The cold water didn’t help. It didn’t wash the memories of those mean words Julian had said to me. A few minutes later, I grabbed a clean towel and dried my face. Then I went back to the bedroom. I froze when I got there because I saw Julian standing in front of the door. What was he doing there? I didn’t say anything. After what he had done the previous night, he didn’t deserve a word from me. I quietly sat on the bed and pretended like there was no one in the room. “You broke our picture frame?” That was the first thing that came out of his mouth. We were on the verge of losing our marriage and the only thing he was concerned about

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