Wedding My Ex’s Uncle

Chapter 294 No Secrets

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

14 min left

[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.]

1/8

16:37

Chapter 294 No Secrets

14 min left

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.

2/8

16:37

Chapter 294 No Secrets

Looking back, she thought bitterly-

It wasn’t his fault.

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

sooner.

*****

14 min left

right on time. After slipping off his shoes, he bent down to wipe them clean before carefully placing them in the shoe

Graves, please allow

already straightening up. “I’ll take care of these

coat and glanced

Graves has been in the study all day,

Lucien’s brow furrowed.

It’s already past

his footsteps slowing as unease

3/8

16:37

Chapter 294 No Secrets

it’s me,” he called. “I’m

13

14 min left

he turned the doorknob slowly and pushed the door

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

up and

“…Honey, you’re back.”

He rushed to her, kneeling down beside her

he asked urgently,

again? How long has it been hurting? I’ll call the

now-”

clutched his hand tightly, her grip trembling. Her tear–filled eyes searched his, her nose red from

Lucien’s heart twisted.

on his

4/8

16:37

Chapter 294 No Secrets

she

14 min left

her face with one hand, softly brushing away the tears

okay. Don’t cry,” he murmured, his voice low

it wasn’t a stomachache, then

in front of her, Lucien’s body went stiff, and

“You… saw everything?”

Kaia nodded slowly.

saw

looked at him,

I missed so many years because

moistened his dry lips,

you for a

out a

5/8

16:37

Chapter 294 No Secrets

14 min left

kind of

Kaia paused, thoughts swirling.

was seventeen?” she asked,

curious.

faint smile, eyes

told you… it was even earlier than

Her breath caught.

she whispered, heart

first time they’d met—she had only been

trailed