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 vent what she couldn’t

bottled–up sadness, the constant rejection–it all found release

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appeared in the game chat: [Miss, want to

She blinked.

white–robed man stood beside her

and handsome.

calm aura, his quiet presence–made her fingers move

She clicked Accept.

They hadn’t talked much.

from the man’s occasional comments, Kaia gathered that he had already started

to step away for a meeting or take an urgent

had remained polite and distant –more

logged in

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avatar, in a red dress, sat side by side

twelve, she witnessed a virtual

display.

any wishes, but she remembered it vividly

Kaia spent hours lounging in front of the screen, reminiscing in the game–Lucien

this game would

“It’s not going

eyes. “Wait…

opened the game’s official

sole owner of the tech

turned slowly to glare at him.

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

rolled her eyes. “Money really

of her eye. “So what made

splurging on this guy

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

And didn’t you say not long ago that she was still

just didn’t think

gaze sharpening. “Wait… is she dating

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