Wedding My Ex’s Uncle
Chapter 17
Chapter 17 I’ll Handle Her Myself
Lucien stared at the top of her head for a moment.
“Let me see if there are any blisters. I’m sorry for being so harsh. Your neck is all red. If there are blisters, you’ve got to go to the hospital!”
Instead of a response, he heard soft, broken sobs, like the pained meows of a kitten.
Is she crying?
Lucien’s heart ached.
“Stop crying, Kaia. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have raised my voice at you.“Lucien took out a clean handkerchief from his pocket and tenderly wiped away her tears.
Lucien gently tilted her face up. As he saw her tear–stained cheeks, his heart constricted painfully.
God, I’m such an idiot!
“It’s not because of you, Uncle Lucien,” Kaia said hoarsely. Her tears kept falling in silence, yet she forced a smile. “I just… suddenly felt the wound hurting again.”
Lucien’s gaze lingered on the redness at the corners of her eyes. His Adam’s apple shifted.
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“Kaia.” His voice was low, each word like a blunt knife slowly cutting through the composure she was barely holding together. “With me, you never have to endure.”
Kaia froze.
Never have to endure-
Those three words felt like a key, prying open a long–rusted lock deep inside her heart.
All her life, she had only ever heard:
“Just endure it, it’ll pass.”
“Don’t be so petty.”
“What’s it going to cost you to give a little ground?”
Even Alden, after Luna’s endless provocations and slander, would order her:
“Kaia, apologize to Luna!”
Everyone had told her to step back, to be understanding, to swallow her grievances…
But no one had ever told her-
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you want,” Lucien said, his thumb brushing away the wetness under her eyes, his voice soft as a sigh, “just give me a name. I’ll take
discussing
Kaia almost believed he
how could that be
let out a faint, relieved smile. “It’s okay, Mr. Graves. I already got my
looked at
taking her to the hospital and making sure she was fine,
car sat parked downstairs as he watched her
from his pack, and soon a crimson glow
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the steering wheel with both
to move.
had been Lucien’s driver since Lucien was a teenager, and
all those years, Chris had never seen Lucien this anxious
was that the woman in
seemed to be Alden’s
big was about to
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morning, Kaia checked herself
angry red marks on her neck had
hair up in a bun and chose an off–shoulder knit sweater paired with
clear: let those burns breathe.
it’d just
as Kaia arrived at the law firm, Jude called
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office.
to see me?” Kaia said
across from
studied the faint red marks still visible on her neck, his brow furrowing with
did you manage to
composure with a casual
my coffee cup, and
shook his
sharp as a tack at work, but in
force these
of documents her way. “Ever heard
you?”
skipped
and opened them to the first
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