Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 73 Reasonable

Kaia stared at him, eyes cold—like he’d just told the world’s dumbest joke.

“Alden,” she said, voice laced with frost, “what exactly did I do to target her? Before you come picking a fight, maybe get your head screwed on straight.”

Alden’s face flushed, his jaw tightening at her harsh words.

“I know you and Kimberly don’t get along, but wasn’t kicking them out a bit much? They had nowhere else to go!”

He pressed on, trying to justify himself.

“Yeah, maybe Kimberly crossed a line-but she’s the one who spread the rumors, and now Luna’s the one getting scolded for it. Don’t you think… maybe you owe her an apology?”

So it really was Kimberly and Luna.

Kaia’s stomach twisting-not with hurt, but with disgust.

No wonder everything had unraveled the way it had.

She let out a sharp, bitter scoff.

“Apologize?” she repeated, eyes narrowing. “I wouldn’t forgive

them even if they grovel at my feet. And you think I should say sorry?”

Her voice dropped, ice-cold.

from wrong, then do everyone a favor and zip it. You

at him like

to think she’d

she shook her head-more at herself than at

—I’ll

alone. And if you keep showing up to bother me— walk straight into your uncle’s office and let

the snitch, she might as well play the part

rooted to the spot, utterly

seriously just threaten to run to Lucien and tell

anyway? There was no chance in hell he’d take her

noses into

Kaia really think Lucien was in her

girlfriend. Why would he stick his neck

to pale as a sheet. He climbed back into his car and slammed his fist

a little ribbing, and she’d come back at him like a

didn’t she come to him first?

got under Alden’s

even bother to figure out why he was so riled up. Instead, he just angrily

*****

Kaia suddenly realized that Lucien must have been in the

Luna for my

she was increasingly in

Kaia finally sent a message: