Secret Wife, Real Billionaire

Chapter 240 The Baby

Kaia looked up, and her eyes lit up.

She flung open the door and jumped into Lucien’s arms.

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Lucien held her tightly, his arms wrapping around her like he wanted to merge their bodies together.

He kissed her hair and murmured, “Take care of yourself. You hear me?” His voice was both commanding and aching.

Kaia buried her face in his neck and nodded hard. “I will. You too. And don’t even think about looking at other girls, got it?”

Lucien gave a low chuckle. “I won’t.”

Everyone knew–his eyes had room for only one person, and

that was her.

Kaia thought he was going to the airport with her, but to her surprise, he just straightened her coat, helped her into the car, and shut the door.

Her heart twisted. He really could be so cruel.

Even when the plane took off, Kaia looked back, her gaze lingering on the land she had lived in for twenty–six years. She was finally leaving,

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Chris stood at the terminal, watching the plane climb higher. He glanced at Lucien and asked, “Mr. Graves, why didn’t you Mrs. Graves know you came?”

Lucien’s deep eyes flickered. “Because I didn’t want her to feel

worse.”

And because he didn’t trust himself not to stop her. He didn’t trust himself not to drag her home and never let her go.

He sighed, “Let’s go.”

As soon as Lucien got home, he called Zane in for a discussion. He had a plan for Alden.

He offered, “Zane, didn’t you say you wanted Alden to start taking on more responsibilities at the group?

let

Let him go over there for a year. Think of it

you’re finally letting him get involved in the

outskirts. Even if he’s my nephew, I won’t give him special treatment. Alden’s talented, but he overthinks

kept nodding. “You’re right. That

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doing.

flashed coldly for

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“If I say it myself, he’ll think I’m targeting

Lucien wasn’t going to let

much, he could go do it in the middle of

sweat it out in Africa, far away from

bridges with Alden. But he’d rather not have to—he’d cut those chances

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[Honey, I’ve arrived. My new

respond, but his fingers moved on their own, betraying

[Okay.

Lucien had sent. It left her

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her plate for her

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her apartment to campus, get a read on her professors‘ personalities, and settle into her course schedule. Then

done and she’d

would call. But it had already been a week— and not a

gentle reminder. “Mr. Graves, everything’s going smoothly with Mrs. Graves

and even though she

He went through the motion dozens of times before finally

Frank winced.

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bloodbath for

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rough first week overseas. Maybe it was the unfamiliar bed, or maybe just the nerves,

at night, lectures during the day–she

want him to hear how bad she sounded. So she kept the phone

more weeks, she gave in and tried

appointments were hard to book. She missed how convenient things were

were excellent at keeping their struggles

ran out of patience and found a private doctor who