Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 239 Life Really Isn’t Fair

This really was his dad–always the first to doubt him.

“She won’t,” Lucien said, confident. “She couldn’t let go.”

A man like him? She wouldn’t walk away.

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Allen didn’t even dignify that narcissism with a reply. He just waved him off, done listening to his cocky son.

When Alyssa heard the news, she was stunned.

“You’re seriously going abroad for a whole year?” she asked.

Kaia nodded. “Yeah. It’ll fly by. I probably won’t be back during that time, so you’ll have to miss me for a bit.”

Alyssa threw her arms around her, eyes brimming with reluctant tears. “You’re just going to leave me like this? Wait- Uncle Lucien actually agreed to this?”

“He did.”

Alyssa pulled back, wide–eyed, “He agreed? He’s so clingy–1 figured he’d be right behind you the moment you boarded the plane.”

She wasn’t exaggerating. She’d been paying attention, and it was obvious to her–Lucien was the one more emotionally invested

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in this marriage.

Kaia gave a wry smile. “He won’t follow. His condition was that he wouldn’t call, wouldn’t visit, and wouldn’t interfere for the entire year. He said he’d wait until I came back.”

Alyssa blinked in disbelief. “What? Did Uncle Lucien hit his head or something?”

After Kaia explained the situation, Alyssa finally seemed to understand.

“No wonder. Kaia, you’re something else. You’re the first person I know who’s actually dared to lie to Uncle Lucien.”

Kaia managed a faint smile. She had made a mistake–and she knew it.

don’t worry,” Alyssa said, puffing up

be your undercover agent–I swear, I won’t let

need. Men don’t

you monitor, the more they

in Lucien

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home one day and found that she no longer had a place in

stay.

Kaia announced her decision to

couple across the table,

of Kaia’s chair,

of his own.

Still, the tension between them was

guard by the news. It had been a privilege to be loved. And it had once given Kaia a kind of confidence that nothing

really lived without fear. What if Lucien had someone new

want to study abroad, and off you go. Luna wants

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isn’t fair,

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study abroad too. Then you can see her every day. Or better yet, tell

with embarrassment, completely at a

Joanne, that’s enough from

wasn’t thrilled with Lucien’s sharp words, Joanne had started it, after

toward Kaia. “Kaia, take care of yourself out there. Lucien, you should assign a few people to keep an eye

“Thank you, but that won’t be necessary. No need for special treatment. I’ll be fine on

abroad every year—if

manage, so can I.”

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leaving, Lucien had his arms locked around her waist and