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Chapter 165


I'd meant to provoke Morden, and it had worked.

The small opening I'd finally won.

I snatched Melody's hand and bolted like a madwoman for the stairs leading down to the first floor.

I had to give up on the second-floor safehouse. Better to get down the stairs and outside instead.

"Hah, hah...!"

My lungs felt ready to tear apart, but I dragged Melody along and pressed my foot onto the first-floor hallway at last, and that was the exact moment—

Crash—!

An eardrum-splitting boom, and the marble floor right in front of me shattered to pieces.

The small opening I'd fought so hard to earn was rendered useless: he'd lost all reason, and in his fury he'd leapt over the second-floor railing and dropped straight down, closing the distance in an instant.

"Struggling like that, you look just like a bug that's asking to be crushed underfoot."

Morden rose…

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A Contract Marriage with My Child’s Father

A Contract Marriage with My Child’s Father

내 아이의 아빠와 계약 결혼합니다
Score 9.6
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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