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

a new regional head. Let him

was ecstatic. “Seriously? Lucien, you’re finally letting

outskirts. Even if he’s my nephew, I won’t give him special treatment. Alden’s talented, but he overthinks things. The conditions in

kept nodding. “You’re right. That kid…

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doing.

coldly for

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let you talk to him,” Lucien added. “If I say it myself, he’ll

wasn’t going to let Alden

the pot so much, he could go do it in the middle of nowhere.

Alden sweat it out in Africa, far away from

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

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[Honey, I’ve arrived. My new roommate seems nice,

stared at the screen. He’d promised not to respond,

replied: [Okay. Got

at the cold, clipped text Lucien had sent.

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her plate for her to

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her apartment to campus, get a read on her professors‘ personalities,

time all that was done and she’d started

said she missed him and would call. But it had already been a week—

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

nighttime over there, and even though she was supposed

He went through the motion dozens of times

Frank winced.

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Another bloodbath for the division

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it was the unfamiliar bed,

during

want him to hear how bad she sounded.

gave in and tried to get some sleeping

hard to book. She missed how convenient things were

at keeping

eventually ran out of patience and found a private doctor