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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his thumb brushing away the wetness under her eyes, his voice soft as a sigh, “just
spoke as casually as if they were discussing the weather, yet every word carried
Kaia almost believed he really would walk
could that
let out a faint, relieved smile. “It’s okay, Mr. Graves. I already got my revenge.“Worried he
she wouldn’t tell him, Lucien looked at her deeply but said
hospital and making sure she was fine, Lucien drove her
downstairs as he watched her
pull out a cigarette from his pack, and soon a crimson glow sparked
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gripped the steering wheel
to move.
been Lucien’s driver since Lucien was a teenager,
Chris had never seen Lucien this
more was that the woman
seemed to be
big was about to
****
next morning, Kaia checked herself in the
on her neck
in a bun and chose
those burns breathe.
it’d just
as Kaia arrived at the law firm, Jude called
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office.
you wanted to see me?” Kaia said as she settled
from
studied the faint red marks still visible on
on earth did you manage to burn
her composure with a
over my coffee cup, and
his head
sharp as a tack at work, but in your personal life?
smiled silently, “Jude, you can’t force these things. I’ll do my
heard of the Graves family? Does Lucien
you?”
heart skipped
kept her expression neutral as she took the files and opened them to the first page. A man’s striking, cold
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