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,

that fantasy world, slaying monsters helped her vent what

the constant rejection–it all

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

She blinked.

beside her character, his avatar

and handsome.

aura, his quiet presence–made

She clicked Accept.

They hadn’t talked much.

Kaia gathered

needing to step away for a meeting or take an urgent

had remained polite and distant –more

on this special day, her birthday, he suddenly logged in

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game avatar, in a red dress, sat side by side with the white–robed man on

clock struck twelve,

display.

birthday without any wishes, but

hours lounging in front of the screen,

lips. “Who would’ve thought this game would still be

“It’s not going

“Wait… you didn’t

waiting for an answer, she opened the

listed as the sole owner of the tech

to glare at him.

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back, perfectly unbothered. “Was it really that hard to

eyes. “Money

her eye. “So what made

She’s been splurging on

buys a man shoes, he’ll run

those losers? And didn’t you say not long ago that she was still single and we should

half–shrug. “I just didn’t

expression shifted, his gaze sharpening. “Wait… is she dating that former assistant of

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