Chapter 295 Is It Jerry

Last night, they had been intimate.

The doctor had warned against too much activity–especially with twins on the way.

Lucien had to hold back.

“Sleep,” he murmured.

If Kaia kept gazing at him with those soft, affectionate eyes, he wasn’t sure he could keep his self–control intact.

Kaia drifted off with a contented smile on her face.

In her dreams, it felt like she had returned to that summer-

when she was seventeen.

“Kaia, don’t think Dad’s going to favor you just because you topped the class.”

Kimberly’s voice was dripping with smugness. “Aren’t you taking the SAT next year? Mom said this summer’s trip is just for me and Dad. He’s coming too!”

“Kaia, since you’ll be focused on the SAT, we’ve decided not to take you on the trip this year,” Tobias had added without hesitation.

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Seventeen–year–old Kaia had clenched her fists, her vision blurring with unshed tears.

She had been excluded from their vacations the year she broke her leg at sixteen.

Again at fifteen, when the SSAT was the excuse.

Every year, it was something.

Fine, I don’t care anyway.

In the vast emptiness of the Domont Villa, only Claire stayed with her.

The disappointment lodged in her throat like a stone she couldn’t swallow.

She cried so hard that her eyes swelled red with inflammation.

Out of sheer frustration, Kaia had booted up the computer and downloaded several online games at random.

Eventually, she found one she could get into,

fantasy world, slaying monsters helped her vent what she couldn’t

sadness, the constant rejection–it

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a message appeared in the game chat: [Miss, want to team up as

She blinked.

stood beside her character,

and handsome.

aura, his quiet presence–made her fingers

She clicked Accept.

They hadn’t talked much.

the man’s occasional comments, Kaia

to step away for a

remained polite and distant –more like two strangers temporarily bound

logged

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avatar, in a red dress, sat side by side

the clock struck twelve, she

display.

without any wishes, but

lounging in front of the

this game would still be

chuckled. “It’s

eyes. “Wait… you didn’t buy the company, did

for an answer, she opened

was listed as the sole owner of the tech company behind

slowly to glare at him.

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it really that hard to buy

her eyes.

the corner of her eye. “So what made you think of buying me

on this guy she’s dating. Shoes,

a small shrug. “There’s this saying—if a woman buys a man shoes, he’ll run off. I thought I’d test

“You’re comparing me to those losers? And didn’t you say not long ago that she was still single and we

didn’t think she’d dive in

gaze sharpening. “Wait… is she

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