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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said, his thumb brushing away the wetness under her eyes, his voice soft as a sigh, “just give me a name. I’ll

if they were discussing the weather, yet every word carried an

almost believed he really would

how could that

smile. “It’s okay, Mr. Graves. I already got my revenge.“Worried he wouldn’t believe her, she repeated, “I really

wouldn’t tell him, Lucien looked at her deeply but said

hospital and making sure she was fine,

he watched her figure gradually disappear

from his pack, and soon a crimson glow sparked between his

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Lucien’s driver, Chris Walker, gripped the

to move.

driver since Lucien was a teenager, and now Lucien was in

Chris had never seen

more was that the woman in

seemed to be Alden’s

big was about

****

checked herself in

on her neck

in a bun and chose an off–shoulder knit

clear: let those burns breathe.

it’d just make

at the law firm, Jude called

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office.

you wanted to see me?” Kaia said as she

from his

faint red marks still visible on her neck, his

did you manage to burn

maintained her composure with a casual

coffee cup,

shook his

at work, but in your personal life?

force these

of documents her way. “Ever heard of the Graves family? Does Lucien Graves sound

you?”

heart skipped

kept her expression neutral as she took the files and opened them to the first page.

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