Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 239

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,

your undercover agent–I swear, I won’t let a single woman get within ten feet of

Men don’t need to be

you monitor, the more

had faith in Lucien

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home one day and found that she no longer had a

stay.

Kaia announced her decision to the

the table,

lazily along the back of Kaia’s chair, returning Alden’s

of his own.

Still, the tension between them

by the news. It had been a privilege to be loved. And it had once given Kaia a kind

that—some people really lived without fear. What if Lucien had

said, “Wow, Kaia, must be nice. You say you want to study abroad, and off you go. Luna wants to come back to

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Life Really

isn’t fair,

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

embarrassment, completely at a

“Alright, Joanne, that’s enough

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

Lucien, you should assign a few people to keep an eye on things over there. Security abroad

necessary. No need for special treatment. I’ll be

international students go abroad every year—if they

manage, so can I.”

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his arms locked around her

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