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Chapter 218


Even at the sudden interruption, Elionis showed no sign of displeasure at all. Staring blankly down at his rebuffed arm, he only muttered, like a man whose soul had left his body.

"My wife...? Then the Duchess of Asheln is..."

His voice was low, barely comprehensible. I couldn't read a single thing in the emotion swirling in his clear green eyes.

Eyes as empty as the void of space itself.

"Why. Why... Why on earth would the Duchess..."

He murmured to the empty air, then fixed his gaze on my face over and over, unblinking. Something about the sheer wrongness of it made me swallow, unconsciously, against a dry throat.

Sensing that I'd gone rigid, startled, Cain smoothly tucked me behind his broad back.

A suffocating standoff stretched on.

Even the knights, caught in the strange, hair-trigger atmosphere, held their breath, unable to move rashly.

"No. No. That can't be.…

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A Contract Marriage with My Child’s Father

A Contract Marriage with My Child’s Father

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Status: Completed Type: Author: Native Language: Korean
I was reborn into a parenting novel — as a nameless extra. Or so I thought, until I found myself raising the original heroine: my own four-year-old daughter, Melody, a Saintess candidate the Temple would stop at nothing to take. To keep her hidden, I lived quietly as a village pharmacist in the south, playing the part of an unwed mother some man had walked out on. And then I was hired to treat the nephew of Duke Cain Asheln — the Dragon Duke, the most eligible bachelor in the empire, and the man who is supposed to be the story's father figure. Silver hair. Red eyes. A face that never gives anything away. "Let's marry." "Pardon?" "Didn't you say so yourself? That you wanted a contract marriage." I did need a marriage — to protect Melody, and my own life along with hers. But I never meant to ask him. A contract marriage ends in divorce. That was the deal I'd made with myself. So why does this man keep looking at my daughter as if she were already his?

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