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Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 167
CHAPTER 167 – LENALena woke before Kai.For a moment, she lay still, listening to the quiet beyond the balcony doors.The town was beginning to wake.A distant voice carried from the street.Someone rolled a cart over the pavement.The sea moved steadily beyond the buildings.She turned her head.Kai was still asleep.She smiled.Their last full day had arrived.She had expected that thought to make her sad.Instead, she felt strangely peaceful.There was still time.She slipped out of bed and walked onto the balcony.The morning air was cooler than the previous day.She leaned against the railing and watched the first boats moving farther out from shore.Her mind tried to wander toward university.The participant recruitment.The research notes waiting on her laptop.The message from her mentor.She caught herself.Not today.She had promised herself three days.She intended to keep the promise.---Kai appeared behind her a few minutes later.“You're awake early.”“So are you.”“I
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 166
CHAPTER 166 – KAIKai woke to the sound of gulls.For a few seconds, he didn't remember where he was.Then he saw the unfamiliar ceiling.The quiet room.The curtains moving slightly with the morning breeze.And Lena asleep beside him.He smiled.There was no alarm.No meeting.No reason to get up early.He stayed where he was until Lena shifted beneath the sheets.Her eyes opened slowly.“What time is it?”“I don't know.”She blinked.“You don't know?”“No.”A smile appeared on her face.“That might be the most impressive thing you've said all week.”Kai reached for his phone on the bedside table, then stopped.Lena noticed.“You were going to check.”“I was going to see the time.”“There's a clock.”He looked toward the small clock near the television.“Right.”She laughed.Kai sat up.“Breakfast?”“Eventually.”“Eventually?”“We're on holiday.”He looked at her.She looked back.Neither moved.Then Lena smiled.“See? You don't have to do anything immediately.”Kai nodded.“I could
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 165
CHAPTER 165 – LENAThe road out of the city looked different when Lena wasn't watching the time.Usually, she noticed traffic.Turnoffs.Fuel stops.How long it would take to reach the next appointment.This morning, she noticed the sky.It was clear beyond the windshield, the morning light spreading over the road as the city gradually disappeared behind them.She rested her elbow against the window and watched the buildings become fewer.Kai drove with one hand on the steering wheel.“No work,” Lena reminded him.“I know.”“No checking company messages.”“I know.”“No asking Marcus for updates.”Kai glanced at her.“You're enjoying this.”“Very much.”He smiled.His phone sat in the center console, turned off.Lena's was there too.Neither had touched it since they left.For once, the silence between them wasn't something that needed filling.They had spent so much time discussing what came next that simply going somewhere felt strangely unfamiliar.After nearly an hour, Kai asked, “
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 164
CHAPTER 164 – KAIKai woke before his alarm and reached for his phone out of habit.His hand stopped halfway.He left it on the nightstand.Friday was tomorrow.For once, there was nothing waiting for him that needed to be handled before breakfast.He got up and went downstairs.Lena was already there, sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea and an open notebook.Kai stopped.She looked up.“What?”“You said you weren't taking that.”She glanced at the notebook.“I know.”“You brought it out anyway.”“I haven't written anything.”“That isn't the same thing.”She closed it.“I was going to.”“About research?”“Maybe.”Kai pulled out the chair opposite her.“Then put it away.”She studied him for a moment.“You're surprisingly strict about this trip.”“I'm trying to protect your holiday from you.”That made her laugh.“Fine.”She slipped the notebook into her bag.Kai watched her do it.There was a time when he would have made the decision for her.Now he was simply asking her to
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 163
CHAPTER 163 – LENABy Wednesday morning, Lena had stopped trying to guess what the next interview would reveal.She had learned that prediction could become another form of bias if she wasn't careful.Instead, she arrived at the university with a short list of practical tasks and left the rest open.The new participant had confirmed the interview.Unlike the previous participants, this person had been referred through an organization Lena had never worked with.That mattered.It meant the study was beginning to move beyond the places she already understood.She met her mentor before her afternoon class.Her mentor looked over the recruitment update and nodded.“You've got a wider range now.”“I'm trying.”“Don't try to make the range look balanced just for the sake of balance.”Lena paused.“I wasn't.”“I know. I'm reminding you because researchers sometimes start arranging people into neat groups before they understand what the differences mean.”Lena wrote that down.Her mentor poin
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 162
CHAPTER 162 – KAIKai woke to the sound of Lena moving quietly through the kitchen.He stayed still for another minute, listening.A cupboard opened.A spoon touched the side of a mug.Then silence.He got up.Lena was standing at the counter with her hair pulled back, reading something on her tablet while waiting for the kettle.“You're studying before breakfast now?” he asked.She looked over her shoulder.“I'm not studying.”“What are you doing?”“Trying not to think about my meeting.”Kai poured himself coffee.“That sounds like thinking about your meeting.”She gave him a look.“Thank you. Very helpful.”He smiled.She returned to the tablet.Today was different from the days when she had prepared for interviews or seminars. There was no presentation to memorize and no list of questions she could rehearse until they sounded perfect.Her mentor wanted to discuss where the research could go.That meant Lena might have to make decisions without knowing exactly what those decisions w
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