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,

helped her vent what

sadness, the constant rejection–it all

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edge, about to crumble, a message appeared in the game chat: [Miss, want

She blinked.

beside

and handsome.

aura, his quiet presence–made

She clicked Accept.

They hadn’t talked much.

occasional comments, Kaia gathered that he had

away for

in the game had remained polite and distant –more like two strangers temporarily bound by a

logged in and said he’d

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avatar, in a red dress, sat side by side with the

clock struck twelve, she witnessed a

display.

wishes, but

in front of the screen, reminiscing in the

thought this game would still be around after

chuckled. “It’s

tilted her head, narrowing her eyes. “Wait… you

an answer, she opened the

Group was listed as the sole owner of the tech company

turned slowly to glare

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really that hard

her eyes. “Money really does

the corner of her eye. “So what made

splurging on this guy she’s dating. Shoes, suits… way beyond what she

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

not long ago that she was still single and we should help her find

didn’t think she’d dive in this

gaze sharpening. “Wait… is she dating that

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