Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 240 The Baby

Kaia looked up, and her eyes lit up.

She flung open the door and jumped into Lucien’s arms.

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Lucien held her tightly, his arms wrapping around her like he wanted to merge their bodies together.

He kissed her hair and murmured, “Take care of yourself. You hear me?” His voice was both commanding and aching.

Kaia buried her face in his neck and nodded hard. “I will. You too. And don’t even think about looking at other girls, got it?”

Lucien gave a low chuckle. “I won’t.”

Everyone knew–his eyes had room for only one person, and

that was her.

Kaia thought he was going to the airport with her, but to her surprise, he just straightened her coat, helped her into the car, and shut the door.

Her heart twisted. He really could be so cruel.

Even when the plane took off, Kaia looked back, her gaze lingering on the land she had lived in for twenty–six years. She was finally leaving,

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Chris stood at the terminal, watching the plane climb higher. He glanced at Lucien and asked, “Mr. Graves, why didn’t you Mrs. Graves know you came?”

Lucien’s deep eyes flickered. “Because I didn’t want her to feel

worse.”

And because he didn’t trust himself not to stop her. He didn’t trust himself not to drag her home and never let her go.

He sighed, “Let’s go.”

As soon as Lucien got home, he called Zane in for a discussion. He had a plan for Alden.

He offered, “Zane, didn’t you say you wanted Alden to start taking on more responsibilities at the group?

let

regional head. Let him go

you’re finally letting him get involved in the

he’s my nephew, I won’t give him special treatment. Alden’s talented, but he

kept nodding. “You’re right. That

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doing. Just

for a

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to him,” Lucien added. “If I say

course Lucien wasn’t going

much, he could go do it in

back. Let Alden sweat it out in

bridges with Alden. But he’d rather not have to—he’d cut

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Kaia landed, she messaged Lucien: [Honey, I’ve arrived.

stared at the screen. He’d promised not to respond, but his fingers moved on

replied: [Okay. Got

Lucien had

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much on her

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had to figure out the route from her apartment to campus, get a read on her professors‘ personalities, and settle into her course schedule. Then came scouting out the best nearby

was done and she’d started adjusting, a

Lucien kept glancing at his phone. She’d said she missed him and would call. But it had already been a

stepped in and gave a gentle reminder. “Mr. Graves, everything’s going smoothly with Mrs. Graves overseas.

Day off… It was already nighttime over there, and even though

over the call button–then pulling back. He went through the motion dozens of times before finally throwing the phone aside. “Call a

Frank winced.

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bloodbath for

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it was the unfamiliar bed, or maybe just the nerves, but she

during

to hear

two more weeks, she gave in and tried to get

appointments were hard to book. She missed how convenient things

international students were excellent at keeping

and found a private doctor who prescribed her something