Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 21 The dinner

Alden’s forehead wrinkled up. He took a screenshot and sent if to his group chat: [Something wrong with WhatsApp? You guys getting my messages? I tried texting someone and got this.]

The rich kids who’d been blowing up the chat went dead silent.

Alden’s frown got deeper.

Is it actually broken?

Finally, one of them dropped the truth bomb: [Mr. Graves, WhatsApp’s fine. She blocked you.]

Alden was stunned.

Blocked? What right did Kaia have to block me?

When Joanne called to invite Kaia for dinner tomorrow, Kaia already had plans with Jude, so she turned it down.

But Joanne was incredibly enthusiastic and moved it to the next day. Kaia couldn’t say no this time and had to agree.

“Lucien, don’t be mad at that brat. I’ll make sure to keep him in line,” Zane said in Allen’s study.

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Lucien nodded a little, face blank. “Zane, I don’t get frustrated with the younger generation. But Alden’s been acting up Everything we do needs to follow proper etiquette and protocol.

“I don’t want people talking badly about the Graves family. Don’t you agree, Zane?”

Zane was a full twelve years older than Lucien, yet in front of his younger brother, he seemed like the junior one.

“Yeah, yeah, you’re absolutely right, Lucien. I’ll keep an eye on Alden in the future.”

Right then, Joanne rolled in with coffee. “Allen, Lucien, I just talked to Kaia. She’s got a work dinner tomorrow, so she’s coming over the next day instead.”

sounds good.”

“Dad, Zane, Joanne. I have another appointment later, so I’ll head out now. I’ll be back the day after tomorrow for dinner, but I won’t make

keep Lucien around to talk about his blind date thing,

now Lucien was running

But don’t drink too much at those business things–it’s bad for

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slight bow. “Yes,

The next evening.

13 min left

Julian Rhodes–the man heading the Graves Group’s acquisition of Ease Electronics. Whoever impressed Julian would win the right to represent the

meeting was scheduled at the Prosperity Hotel. Jude brought two lawyers from his team, Kaia and

stomach problems, he specifically

the investment department

so much about you,” Jude greeted warmly,

are two of the most outstanding

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Kaia Domont, and this

extremely nervous, Kaia managed to maintain her composure. “Nice to meet you,

introduction, then naturally stepped in

her youth, Mr. Rhodes–Kaia graduated top of her class from the country’s best university, went on to earn her master’s degree, and is already making a name for herself. She’s just starting out now,

year.

said with a light nod and

and Julian dominated the dinner conversation while Alvin Blake from Graves Group’s

Kaia as he grinned.

to tell him that Kaia couldn’t drink, but then he heard Kaia speak up confidently, “I’m not much of a drinker, but I’m so excited to meet all you executives today. I just hop won’t hold my low tolerance

with delight. “Ha! Ms. Domont, you’re

u

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It doesn’t matter how much you drink- what matters

is!

From the sound of things, she’d be drinking quite a