Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 91 - チャプター 100

CHAPTER 91 – KAIKai had seen Lena face difficult decisions before.He had watched her stand in rooms where people twice her age tried to intimidate her.He had watched her argue for the center when she had barely enough resources to keep it running.He had watched her choose uncertainty over a comfortable arrangement because she refused to let someone else decide what her life should become.But the expression on her face now was different.She was not afraid.She was calculating.Kai recognized it immediately.“What exactly did they offer you?”Lena turned the phone toward him.He read the email carefully.The university had accepted her into a community development program, but not in the format she had originally expected. Her application had impressed the admissions committee enough that they were offering her a place in a specialized program involving community planning and social policy.There was one condition.Several portions of the program required her to spend periods away

CHAPTER 93 – KAIKai woke before sunrise.He lay still for a moment, listening to the quiet apartment.Lena was asleep beside him.Her breathing was slow and even, one hand resting near her face.He looked at the clock.Five thirty-two.Too early.He turned his attention toward the ceiling.The university interview was two days away.He had no reason to be thinking about it at this hour.Yet his mind had already started working.Travel arrangements.Her schedule.The center.Her sister.The program requirements.He mentally listed each problem before stopping himself.There were no problems yet.There was only a possibility.Kai closed his eyes.He had spent most of his life preparing for things before they happened.It had made him successful.It had also made him exhausting to live with.He turned his head toward Lena again.She shifted slightly in her sleep.Kai smiled.Then he got out of bed.By seven, he was in the kitchen.He made coffee and checked his phone.Fourteen unread me

CHAPTER 95 – KAIKai had expected Lena to be excited after receiving the university's acceptance.He hadn't expected her to become quiet.Not unhappy.Just thoughtful.By Saturday morning, the acceptance letter was still sitting on the kitchen counter, carefully placed beside her notebook.Kai watched her read it for the third time while he stood by the coffee machine.“You've memorized it,” he said.Lena looked up.“I haven't.”“You've read it three times.”“Four.”He raised an eyebrow.She smiled.“Fine. Four.”Kai poured coffee into two cups.“You're allowed to be happy about it.”“I am happy.”“Then why do you look like you're preparing for a court hearing?”Lena glanced at the letter.“Because it suddenly feels real.”Kai carried one cup to her.She accepted it.“The interview made it real,” he said.“No. The interview made it possible.”She tapped the letter.“This makes it real.”Kai sat across from her.For a few seconds, neither spoke.He understood the difference.Possibilit

CHAPTER 97 – KAIKai had spent years believing that important decisions were supposed to feel heavy.They were supposed to come with long meetings, careful calculations, competing interests, and enough information to make hesitation look responsible.So when he found himself standing in front of Lena’s desk at the community center, holding a university orientation schedule she had left open beside her notebook, he almost laughed at himself.Nothing about the next step required a board meeting.Nothing required a security briefing.Nothing required him to solve it before it happened.Lena was simply going to university.And he was going to miss her while she was away.That was the part he was still learning how to accept.“You're staring at that schedule like it personally offended you.”Kai looked up.Lena stood in the doorway carrying two folders against her chest.“It hasn't.”“You've been looking at it for almost a minute.”“I was thinking.”She smiled. “That's usually what you cal

CHAPTER 99 – KAIKai arrived at the Reyes Security headquarters earlier than usual.Not because there was an emergency.Not because someone had called him.And not because he had suddenly decided that three weeks away from daily operations had been a mistake.He simply wanted to see the place.The building looked exactly as it always had.Glass walls. Quiet corridors. Security personnel moving with practiced efficiency. Executives disappearing into conference rooms with tablets in their hands and coffee balanced carefully between their fingers.Nothing had fallen apart without him.That should not have surprised him.Yet it did.Marcus met him near the executive offices.“You're here.”Kai nodded.“I noticed.”Marcus looked at him for a moment.“You're not supposed to be working.”“I know.”“Then why are you here?”Kai glanced through the glass toward the operations floor.“I wanted to see how things were going.”Marcus smiled.“They're going well.”“I can see that.”“You're disappoin