Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 157 Seething With Anger

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She turned her head away, blinking quickly as a tear slipped down and dampened her lashes. No one had ever spoken about loving her so openly and honestly.

“Don’t shed those tears, sweetheart,” Lucien murmured softly.

His dry yet cool fingertips tenderly brushed away the unshed tears glistening in Kaia’s eyes. Then, he slowly leaned in and placed a gentle kiss on her eyelids.

“Something about those tears makes me want to kiss them away,” he whispered against her skin.

Kaia rolled her eyes, though a smile tugged at her lips. Who was he kidding? He never needed an excuse to kiss her anyway.

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“Allen, you transferred 5% of your shares to Kaia?” Joanne shrieked, her voice laced with disbelief.

Allen raised his eyebrows. “What? Do I need your say-so to decide who gets my shares?”

Joanne quickly backtracked. “No, no! I didn’t mean you need my approval. It’s just…”

She stamped her foot in frustration. “It seems a bit hasty, you

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know?”

Her husband, Zane, had been slaving away for the company as the eldest son, but he only held 15% of the shares. And their son, Alden, Allen’s grandson, didn’t have a single share to his name.

Sure, Alden was running a subsidiary of the Graves Group, but a subsidiary was nothing compared to the main company.

Joanne was fuming, her face turning grim.

“Oh come on, Aunt Joanne, what’s the rush?” Alyssa chimed in with a mischievous pout. “Grandpa’s already got everything planned―Uncle Lucien’s getting married. He can’t be stingy with the wedding gift, can he?”

“Then why doesn’t he just give away his own shares?” Joanne blurted out, finally voicing what she’d been holding back.

Allen’s eyes turned frosty. He looked over at Zane, who’d been keeping quiet all this time. “Zane, do you feel the same way?”

grip on his knee and then let go

shot a stern look at his wife. “Honey, Lucien’s the heir. Dad made it clear that two-thirds of the company’s shares have to

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do? It was not

“Good,” Allen said.

he turned to Alden, who was staring at his shoes, lost in thought. “Alden, are you not happy

shook his head. “Grandpa, I’m

then. If there’s nothing else, go do your

didn’t even bother

out for Kaia.

thing, Grandpa! I’ll make sure to take good

and Luna’s annoyed expressions made

“Hey, Luna, did you see that seaside proposal at the music festival the other day? Uncle Lucien is such a romantic. Oh, right, Luna, what

Proposal?

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out an inward sigh. To be honest, she’d practically strong-armed

no grand

heart ached with

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other side, her bestie, Kimberly, was

anger.

Mr. Stone tell me I

her father’s company. She’d just lounge around, soaking up the flattery from the employees and raking in a

clueless HR director, Ethan Stone,

call her into his office

of Domley Tech. There

just as confused. He picked up the phone and dialed the internal line. “Get Ethan on

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one of our major shareholders is here. Mr. Stone is currently meeting

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shareholder?” he asked, already dreading

heard the name he