Wedding My Ex's Uncle (Kaia and Alden) novel Chapter 242

Chapter 242 You Really Stayed!

He panicked. “She’s sick? What happened?”

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But realizing his panic wouldn’t help, Lucien quickly reined in

his voice.

“I’m sorry–I overreacted. Could I trouble you to call an ambulance for her, please? I’ll be on the next flight over.”

Kaia’s roommate blinked, clearly surprised. She hadn’t even met Kaia’s husband before–but it was obvious now how much he

cared.

“Sure, no problem. Do you know the address?”

“I do. Thank you,” he said firmly.

Back home, Frank groaned when Lucien’s number lit up his phone.

He picked up, sounding reluctant. “Mr. Graves?”

“I need you to book me on the next outbound flight,” Lucien said.

“I know it’s a holiday–I’ll pay you five times your usual rate. Also, contact the best doctor in the area. Kaia’s come down with a viral infection and a high fever. I want someone with her right away.”

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Frank sat bolt upright, all irritation gone the moment he heard five times your usual rate.

“Yes, Mr. Graves. I’ll handle it immediately.”

Lucien’s expression was grim.

Sick–and didn’t even tell me?

When I get there, I’m definitely gonna teach her a lesson.

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Kaia vaguely heard the rhythmic beeping of machines. When she finally managed to open her eyes, all she could see was the familiar, clinical white ceiling shared by hospitals around the world.

Am I in a hospital?

She figured her roommate must’ve brought her in.

She had no idea how long she’d been asleep. Her phone was nowhere in sight. Just as she was trying to remember where she last left it, the door to her room swung open. Her eyes widened instantly. Standing there was Lucien.

Why is he here? Am I hallucinating?

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Kaia blinked hard, almost afraid that if she closed her eyes again, he would vanish.

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Lucien’s lips curled into a cool smirk. His tone was just as cold. “What, it’s only been six months and you don’t recognize your own husband anymore?”

Her pale face broke into a bright, disbelieving smile. “Lucien!” she cried, reaching out to pinch him.

When he flinched and frowned, she giggled. “Honey, it’s really you!”

Lucien sighed heavily, “You got sick and didn’t tell me. How do you plan on making up for that?”

Kaia pouted, lips pushed out in a show of protest, “You’re the one who said I wasn’t allowed to contact you. Now you’re blaming me?”

“And I also told you not to go abroad,” he shot back. “Did you listen then? And now you suddenly want to play obedient? Kaia,

I swear…”

He gave her backside a light smack, his voice caught somewhere between frustration and tenderness. “You’ve lost weight.”

She hadn’t meant to cry, but those words cracked something open inside her. The tears started flowing before she could stop them.

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“You took too long, Honey,” she whispered. “I missed you so much. I thought maybe… maybe some gorgeous little vixen back home had lured you away.”

Lucien let out a helpless sigh and gently cradled her face in

his hands, brushing a soft kiss against her temple. “Don’t talk nonsense. From the beginning to now, the only one who’s ever bewitched me is you.

“Alright now, stop crying. You’re impossible.” He smoothed her hair back with a touch full of love. “The doctor said your immune system was low. You caught a virus. You need to rest for a few days and recover fully before you go back to class. Got

it?”

Kaia sniffled and nodded through her tears. “I got it.”

He glanced down at her, frowning a little again. “Seriously, half a year and all the weight I helped you gain is just gone.”

Kaia blinked up at him, still tear–streaked but cheeky. “My waist and legs got thinner… but not my boobs.”

Lucien paused, lips twitching. He didn’t know whether to laugh or scold her.

When he finally convinced her to get more rest, she clutched his hand tightly. “If I fall asleep, will you disappear again?”

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Lucien gave a soft chuckle, his thumb brushing across her knuckles. “I’ll be right here when you wake up.”

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Lucien didn’t waste time. He called Allen and Zane, instructing them that Zane would handle company matters for the next six months. Frank, his ever–capable assistant, would support Zane.

Half a year wouldn’t change much anyway.

Lucien had Jason send over some of his personal belongings.

He’d made up his mind—he wasn’t leaving for the rest of the six months. There was no way he’d feel at ease leaving Kaia here alone.

Without wasting time, he spoke to her roommate and paid off the rest of Kaia’s share of the rent. She wouldn’t be moving back

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Her roommate, stunned by his efficiency and dominance, could only admire the sheer force of his love.

Kaia, still asleep, had no idea that in just two hours, Lucien had completely rearranged her life.

When she woke again and saw the empty chair beside her bed, her heart sank.

So it really was a dream.

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But then the door opened once more, and the man she thought had vanished appeared again.

Her brows lifted. “You really stayed!”

Lucien, calm and composed, walked in holding a thermos. He carefully opened it, pulled out a small bowl of steaming soup, and sat down beside her bed. “What’d you think? That was a ghost you saw?”

He blew gently on the soup. “Here. Drink up. You need the nutrients.”

Kaia took tiny sips, unable to stop herself from smiling. In that moment of quiet warmth, she finally realized how deeply she depended on him.

“Honey,” she murmured, wrinkling her nose playfully, “when are you going back home?”

Lucien arched a brow. “Finish your soup. We’ll talk later.”

Kaia didn’t press. She knew him well enough to recognize when he didn’t want to say something. If he wanted to keep it quiet, nothing she said would make him talk.

The man was too tight–lipped for his own good.

Lucien stayed in the hospital with her for two days, sleeping in the chair by her bed. On the third day, Kaia finally felt like

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“I’ve got to get back to class,” she said anxiously. “I’ve already missed so many lectures, and the final paper is brutal this term.”

But then Lucien drove her to a quiet neighborhood and pulled up in front of a villa. Kaia stared at it, stunned. “Wait, you don’t like the apartment we were staying in? But this place is huge. Isn’t this a little excessive?”

She trailed off when she stepped inside and saw her entire life had been moved in–her books, her clothes, even the way she arranged things—it was all exactly the same. “How did you do

all this?”

He casually shrugged off his coat and hung it on the rack. “Your husband lives here now. Where else would you live? You want to be in the same city and still live apart?”

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