Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

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Lucien’s voice was hoarse. “Kaia, how much longer will it take for you to fully trust me? To truly see me as someone you can rely on?”

His words trembled at the end—and Kaia heard it. It pierced straight through her.

Her eyes welled up. “I’m sorry. I wasn’t planning to keep it from you much longer. I was going to tell you today,” she said quietly. “I didn’t mean to hide it. I just…”

Lucien let out a dry, bitter laugh. “You’re afraid I’d stop you from going abroad? That I’d hold you back? Sabotage your future? Become some kind of obstacle in your life?”

His tone grew sharper, his words accelerating with emotion.

Kaia’s panic rose. She shook her head fast. “No. That’s not it at all. Lucien, please let me explain.”

But the moment she met his cold, distant gaze, her heart sank like a stone.

“If you’d just told me earlier,” he said, voice flat, “there wouldn’t be anything to explain now.”

Then, without another word, he swept her up over his shoulder

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and carried her straight into the living room.

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On the couch, he paused, frowning. “I told you to wear shoes. The floor’s cold.”

Kaia could feel him slipping further away from her, emotionally even more than physically. That distance made her chest tighten with dread.

She grabbed his hand, her voice shaking. “Lucien, please don’t go. I was wrong. Sit down. Let’s talk.”

But he pulled away. “There’s nothing to talk about.”

And with that, he turned and walked upstairs.

She had ruined everything–all the effort, all the precise timing, and every plan she had carefully laid. It was all in shambles

now.

Tears streamed down her face as she sat alone on the first floor, crying so hard her knees were soaked with tears.

had noticed the untouched dinner on the table, the flowers she

too angry. He’d only meant to go upstairs, cool down for a few minutes. Yet the moment he remembered the way

turned red, he cursed under his

eyes

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up on the couch, her frame hunched over, head buried between her knees. And just the sight of her

so

He sighed, “Stop crying.”

tear–streaked face snapped up when she heard the deep, familiar voice above

didn’t leave,”

sighed and gently pulled her

tissue from the coffee table and carefully wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, pretending to scold her.

“I just feel so bad. I didn’t

don’t like it when you thank me, either. Every time you say those words, it makes me feel like a stranger–like I’m someone you’re keeping out of

little, the way you

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too. I like knowing that when you’re struggling,

Lucien hesitated, voice

sniffled, eyes red and swollen. “You want

was too proud to say it aloud. “Figure it out

later, the storm had

“How did you find

to the airport

Lucien was

tell

opened it by mistake. She must’ve told

with just enough force

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told him before me? You’d

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Lucien would check the facts himself. He wouldn’t believe

asked, “So what’s the plan? Which uni? How

her nose and sniffled. “I was going to tell you today. I

tone tugged right at his heart. Lucien

my bag? It’s because I went to a bookstore to