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,

world, slaying monsters helped her

bottled–up sadness, the constant

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

She blinked.

man stood beside

and handsome.

about him–his calm aura, his quiet presence–made her fingers move

She clicked Accept.

They hadn’t talked much.

Kaia gathered that he had already started

to step away for a meeting or take

remained polite and distant –more like two strangers temporarily bound by a

day, her birthday, he suddenly logged in and said he’d take her

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in a red dress, sat side

clock struck twelve, she witnessed a

display.

without any wishes, but she remembered it

of the screen, reminiscing

sigh escaped her lips. “Who would’ve thought this game would still be around after all these

chuckled. “It’s not

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

she opened the game’s official website. Her jaw

Group was listed as the sole owner of the tech company behind the

turned slowly to glare at him.

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

her eyes. “Money

corner of her eye. “So what made you think

She’s been splurging on this guy she’s dating. Shoes,

gave a small shrug. “There’s this saying—if a woman buys a

“You’re comparing me to those losers? And didn’t you say not long ago

“I just didn’t think she’d dive in this

sharpening. “Wait… is she dating

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