Chapter 24 Over a Thousand Days and Nights

Eventually. Just how long did that mean? An hour? A day? A month? Or a year that stretched on like an endless road? Talia didn't know how long it would take for Lucien to move on. After all, the woman he'd pined for over 20 years had finally returned to his side. The joy of rekindled love and long-awaited fulfillment would likely soon drown out the memory of the baby. People said there were four great joys in life—a wedding night's bliss, the thrill of academic success, relief in desperate times, and finding kinship in distant lands. Lucien had achieved two of them, everything but academic success and finding kinship. His career was thriving, and his love life was ideal. Surely this was the happiest time of his life. As for the baby—or rather, just a fertilized egg—it was merely a trivial regret in his 31 years of life. Now that he had the woman he loved, he'd have more children in the future. With the government encouraging childbirth now and the Reese family being relatively