Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 294 No Secrets

Luika: [Are you really never going to log into this account again?]

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[Looks like the answer is yes. If you’re not coming back… can I use this place as a diary? Since you didn’t say no, I’ll take that as permission.]

[Kaia, you got engaged to Alden today. I really wanted to pull you away–just take your hand and run–but I couldn’t. You’ve liked him since you were sixteen. You finally got what you wanted after graduation at eighteen.]

[Kaia… if only you liked me instead.]

[It’s been snowing where I am for a month straight. But every time I think of your smile, I feel warm again. Would it be even warmer… if I were holding you?]

[I heard you’ll be spending Christmas at the Graves Manor this year.]

[I’m back in the country now. I saw you today–wrapped up in that oversized down jacket, your nose red from the cold. Were you waiting for him? Kaia… your taste in men is really awful. If it were me, I’d never make you wait.]

[I passed by you today. You didn’t recognize me. I guess… this is goodbye. I just hope he treats you well.]

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Kaia read through each message in silence, tears blurring her vision from the very first line.

Then came the last one.

[Kaia, I heard you’re getting married soon. I haven’t dared to log in for a long time, but I couldn’t help myself today. Maybe this will be the last time I write to you here.]

[You’re going to be someone else’s wife soon. I can’t let you get caught up in gossip because of me. From now on, you’ll be my nephew’s wife, and I’ll just be your uncle.]

[Time flies. And you’ve become a mark I’ll never be able to erase from my life.]

[Even so… I still hope he makes you happy. Truly, forever.]

Kaia clutched her chest, overwhelmed.

“Lucien… how could you be so amazing?” she whispered, her voice breaking.

From the summer of 2008 until just a year ago, there were 520

messages,

She couldn’t even begin to imagine what kind of emotions had filled him each time he wrote one.

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Looking back, she thought bitterly-

It wasn’t his fault.

It was her own terrible taste… that she never noticed him

sooner.

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he bent down to wipe them clean

Graves, please

need,” Lucien said, already straightening up. “I’ll take

shrugged off his coat

the study all day, sir,” Dylan replied.

Lucien’s brow furrowed.

It’s already past

his way to the study, his footsteps slowing as unease crept

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it’s me,” he

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turned the doorknob slowly and pushed

couch, hugging her knees to her chest. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying, her face pale and streaked with dried

looked up and saw him, her voice

“…Honey, you’re back.”

second thought. He rushed to her, kneeling down beside her like the world

asked urgently, scanning

stomach hurting again? How long has it been

now-”

her grip trembling. Her tear–filled eyes searched

Lucien’s heart twisted.

arms and sat down with her on

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she

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her face with one hand, softly

he murmured, his voice low and soothing.

then she must’ve remembered

the lit–up screen in front of her, Lucien’s body went stiff, and

“You… saw everything?”

Kaia nodded slowly.

saw

looked at

why didn’t you tell me? I

his dry lips, his gaze

you

out

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was scared you’d think I was some kind of creep, so

Kaia paused, thoughts swirling.

long? Since I was seventeen?”

curious.

a faint smile, eyes

told you…

Her breath caught.

she whispered, heart

time they’d met—she

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