Chapter 237 Someone Worthy of You

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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.

table, the flowers she had set out.

meant to go upstairs, cool down for a

under his breath and rushed back

eyes

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hunched over, head buried between her knees. And just the

you’re so done

He sighed, “Stop crying.”

snapped up when she heard the deep, familiar voice above

didn’t leave,”

and gently pulled her into

wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, pretending to scold her. “I’m not even crying. Why

trembling in his arms. “I just feel so bad. I didn’t mean to hide it from

you say ‘sorry‘. And I 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

little, the way you smile,

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that, too. I like knowing that when

hesitated, voice tightening,

want what?” she asked, her voice barely a

to say it

the storm had

had stopped crying. “How did you find out?”

the airport

face fell. No wonder Lucien was furious. Alden had completely

didn’t tell him,”

score was sent to the firm, and Ophelia opened it by mistake.

just enough force to make

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you had told him before me? You’d

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Lucien would check

“So what’s the plan? Which uni? How long

was going to tell you

right at his heart. Lucien could never resist her when

“And that day I wouldn’t let you open my bag? It’s because I went to a bookstore to get a cookbook.

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