Skipped At The Altar, Taken By His Uncle novel Chapter 99

Chapter 99 Call Me Honey

Chapter 99 Call Me Honey

Klein just took Whitney away like that.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Whitney glanced at him. His smirk was almost too charming to handle.

“Klein, we’re just leaving like this? We haven’t even said goodbye to Grandpa James,” Whitney said.

Klein raised his eyebrows and said, “It’s fine. Lena will handle my dad. But…” He paused. “Isn’t it a bit off to still call me Klein? We’re married now.”

“You should call me honey,” he added.

He made sure to stress the word “honey.”

Just thinking about that word made Whitney blush, and she quickly turned her face away..

Klein rested his hand on the steering wheel, casting her a meaningful glance at her flawless profile. ‘Not/willing to call me that, huh?’ he thought.

‘There are plenty of ways to make her say it, he mused.

“No more Grandpa James. You should start calling him Dad now. But since we haven’t held the wedding yet, you can call him Uncle James for now. Oh, and Carter’s dad? If you feel like it, call him George. If not, you can just ignore him,” Klein teased.

Whitney just stared at him, completely at a loss for words.

‘Klein, can you shut up? I really don’t want to think that far ahead right now, she thought.

When they finally pulled up to the villa, Whitney’s ears finally got a break.

She never would’ve guessed that a man who always seemed so disciplined and proper could talk her ear off.

She glanced at Klein in the driver’s seat and asked, “Aren’t you coming in?”

Klein said with a faint smile, “I need to go back and deal with them. Don’t wait up for me tonight. If you’re tired, just go to bed.”

‘I’d wait up for you?’ Whitney thought.

“Well… good luck,” Whitney mumbled, sounding a little awkward.

Klein couldn’t help but chuckle at her half-hearted encouragement.

His voice was smooth and clear as he replied, “Alright.”

Even though Lena had already pocketed her “emotional trauma compensation,” James was really laying on the pressure, and she was barely holding it together.

“Lena, did you already know your Uncle Klein and Whit were a thing?” James pressed.

Lena said with a sheepish grin, “Of course not, Grandpa. I only found out a couple seconds before you did.”

“If I’d known sooner, I would’ve stocked up on heart pills for you!” she teased.

“Enough with the jokes!” James huffed, trying to sound stern.

Lena took James’s arm and said, “Come on, Grandpa, you always liked Whit, didn’t you? I know you wanted her as your granddaughter-in-law. Besides, Grandma and Whit’s grandma even set up the marriage ages ago. Carter didn’t cherish her. Honestly, it’s kind of perfect that Whit ended up with Uncle Klein instead.”

“You don’t want Uncle Klein to spend the rest of his life all alone, do you?” she teased.

James’s heart skipped a beat.

Yeah, Klein’s marriage was something that had always weighed on his mind.

His youngest just wasn’t like the rest. His first two sons got married early, but Klein was already thirty-three and hadn’t even brought home a girlfriend.

mes had even considered dragging Klein to a men’s health clinic, just to see if there was something wrong with him.

e was finally married, but to his nephew’s ex-fiancée? Seriously, how did that even make sense?

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Chapter 99 Call Me Honey

Her words “hooking up with” made Lena bristle. She was just about to retort when Klein cut in from the entryway, his voice cold. “There was nothing like that.”

“I’m the one who begged her to marry me,” he said, his tone unwavering.

James and the others stared at him, utterly stunned.

James looked a bit grim and said, “Klein, do you even know what you’re saying?”

“I do,” Klein said calmly.

He walked over with a calm expression and said, “Dad, I’m thirty-three, seven years older than her. If I hadn’t begged her to marry me, she probably wouldn’t have considered me at all.”

“Besides, Mom and the Moore family already had a marriage agreement set up. This way, I fulfilled Mom’s wish and go myself a wife. It’s a win-win. So why are you all so upset?” he finished, sounding totally matter-of-fact.

James was at a loss for words.

George and Sabrina were equally speechless.

Lena’s mouth twitched. ‘Is that for real?’ she thought.

‘Yeah, right, Uncle Klein!’ Lena rolled her eyes secretly.

Uncle Klein was the most sought-after bachelor in the socialite world. If he didn’t have that ice-cold poker face, there’d be a whole parade of girls trying to marry him off.

But somehow, he made it sound like he was the one who couldn’t land a wife? Seriously?

James mulled it over for a few seconds and said, “Alright, you’ve got a point. We did have that marriage agreement with the Moore family, so I suppose it works if you’re the one taking Carter’s place.”

As long as his son didn’t bring home a man, James figured he could accept just about anything.

“You two did all this behind everyone’s back. Did you even sort out a wedding plan? And I’m guessing Samuel’s totally in the dark about it, right?” James pressed.

Klein nodded slightly and said, “Yeah. We’ll leave everything up to you, Dad.”

And just like that, the ball was back in James’s court.

Carter just sat there on the couch, not saying a word.

Emily was just as quiet.

She still hadn’t wrapped her head around the fact that Whitney was about to become her aunt-in-law.

Carter suddenly shot to his feet, and George’s eye widened. “Carter, you and Emily must be exhausted from the wedding today. Why don’t you head back to your new place and get some rest?” George said.

He was worried Carter might cause a scene. James hated nothing more than a family feud.

Besides, Klein wasn’t just his uncle. He was the Harris family’s future head.

“Uncle Klein, I want a word with you. Just the two of us,” Carter said, his voice tight.

George, afraid his son might blow up and make things worse, quickly cut in. “Enough, what are you going to talk to your uncle about? He’s got things to do. Don’t get in his way.”

“Things to do? What, stealing his nephew’s fiancée?” Carter shot back his words dripping with sarcasm.

Klein’s cold gaze swept over Carter, and he said with a mocking laugh, “I stole your fiancée?”

“Carter, if I’m not mistaken, you were the one who broke it off first, weren’t you?”

Even so, Carter still believed Uncle Klein had snatched Whitney away from him.

‘No wonder she started ignoring me, Carter thought, bitterness welling up inside.

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