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

****

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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