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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wetness under her eyes, his voice soft as a sigh, “just give me a name. I’ll take care of the person
as casually as if they were discussing the weather, yet every word carried an
almost believed he really would walk through fire for
how could that be
okay, Mr. Graves. I already got my revenge.“Worried he wouldn’t believe her, she repeated, “I
she wouldn’t tell him, Lucien looked at her deeply but
hospital and making sure she
sat parked downstairs as he watched her figure gradually
did he pull out a cigarette from his pack, and soon a crimson glow sparked
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gripped the steering wheel
to move.
since Lucien was a teenager, and now Lucien
all those years, Chris had never seen Lucien this anxious
more was that the woman
seemed to be
was about to
****
checked
angry red marks on
a bun and chose an off–shoulder knit sweater paired with loose–fitting apricot–colored
were clear: let those burns breathe. No tight
just make things
the
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office.
you wanted to see me?” Kaia said as she settled into
from his
marks still visible on her neck, his brow
you
her composure with a casual
over my coffee cup,
his head
you’re sharp as a tack at work, but in your
smiled silently, “Jude, you can’t force these things. I’ll
of documents her way. “Ever heard of
you?”
heart skipped
files and opened them to the first page. A man’s striking,
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