Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 241 I’m Pregnant

Even over text, Kaia could sense his mood.

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She stifled a laugh and hit the call button. It rang several times before the line connected.

“Hello?”

That low, smooth voice–familiar and unmistakably his—made her chest tighten.

She smiled softly. “Honey, I miss you. Do you miss me?”

His tone was dry. “No. Are you sure you miss me? It’s been three weeks. Not a single call. That’s what you call missing someone?”

Kaia could hear the hurt laced beneath the sarcasm.

“I’m sorry,” she said gently. “I’ve just been so busy. And with the time difference, I didn’t want to bother you.”

She paused, then added with a touch of mischief, “Besides, you’re the one who told me not to call. Don’t tell me you’re going back on your word?”

Lucien fell quiet for a moment, clearly cornered. “No. I’m not. Everything’s fine.“/

Kaia smirked. “Alright, then. How about this–I’ll call you once a

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week from now on. Sounds good?”

“…Alright.”

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Truthfully, once a week sounded like too little. Lucien wanted more. But thinking back to his dramatic declarations before she left, he figured he’d better keep his mouth shut.

Kaia kept chatting, rambling on about everything. Mostly, it was her voice filling the line while Lucien quietly listened.

Eventually, she glanced at the time and reluctantly ended the call. Then she stayed up working until 2 a.m.

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Five months after Kaia left, Luna gave birth.

Since the baby needed to return for legal documentation, Lucien had agreed to let her deliver back home.

Africa

time.

the baby sleeping in his bassinet. “He’s such a

been a

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worrying the baby would come out looking too foreign. That would

impression leaned toward “mixed–race cutie“.

What Luna said made sense, so they didn’t question

an X update saying she’d given birth

time to breathe, let alone scroll through posts. She had six

weekly calls with Lucien had

month.

pasta, sat down with her laptop, and kept working on a

she saw it–the first message he had sent her, unprompted, in half a year. Lucien

then did Kaia realize

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smile. She replied:

stared out at the falling snow. There were still

go–one hundred eighty–five days. And he wasn’t sure he

January, she called her

a small, tired smile. “Happy New

got something

didn’t notice how hesitant Alyssa sounded. “What

the one–month mark. You’re the

broke into a warm smile. “Congratulations! Alyssa,

smiled shyly, hand instinctively resting over

me first?

a huff. “He’s been sulking for

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the hospital dorms. Fine, let him stay there! See if

If there’s a misunderstanding, just talk

I just… I needed someone to tell. And I thought of you. Kaia, you’ll

Alyssa. Call

sound so tired. Are

“Yeah, just a little worn out. You get

She hung up.

was a foggy blur of aching limbs, a spinning head, and a constant chill. Her

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