Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

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.

was still in Africa and couldn’t make it

time.

in his bassinet. “He’s such a beautiful child. Big eyes, like

been

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the baby would come

inherited mostly her features. His face didn’t look much like hers, but the overall impression leaned toward “mixed–race cutie“. Whenever someone commented on how

exchanged glances. What Luna said made sense, so they didn’t

given birth right around Christmas. She posted an X update saying she’d

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

calls with Lucien had dwindled to

month.

pasta, sat down with her laptop, and kept working

he had sent her, unprompted, in half a year. Lucien messaged:

realize six months had

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smile. She

out at the falling snow.

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

terribly. In January, she

tired smile. “Happy New Year to

something to

sounded. “What is it,

earlobes flushed pink. “I’m pregnant. Just hit the one–month mark. You’re

broke into a warm smile. “Congratulations! Alyssa, you’re going

instinctively resting over her belly, still amazed

told me first? You haven’t told Landon

a huff. “He’s been sulking for no reason

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into the hospital dorms. Fine, let him

talk

I needed someone to tell. And I thought of you. Kaia, you’ll be back in

worry, Alyssa. Call me whenever

you sound so tired. Are

hesitated. “Yeah, just a little worn out. You get some

She hung up.

limbs, a spinning head, and a constant chill. Her roommate had asked several times if