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 she couldn’t say

the constant rejection–it all found release

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when she was teetering on the edge, about to crumble, a message appeared in

She blinked.

beside her character,

and handsome.

his quiet presence–made her

She clicked Accept.

They hadn’t talked much.

man’s occasional comments, Kaia gathered that

for a meeting or take an

–more like two strangers temporarily bound by a quest than

he suddenly logged in and said he’d

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sat side

clock struck twelve, she witnessed

display.

birthday without any wishes, but she remembered

front of the screen, reminiscing in the

escaped her lips. “Who would’ve thought this game would still

“It’s not

“Wait… you didn’t buy the company,

answer, she opened

the sole owner of the tech company behind

turned slowly to glare at

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back, perfectly unbothered. “Was it really that hard

her eyes. “Money really does

of her eye.

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

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

not long ago that she

“I just didn’t think she’d dive

is she dating that former

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