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Chapter 72


Whew. I thought I'd die.

Catching my breath, still racing, I looked back behind us.

"Now, phew. No one around, right?"

"Doesn't look like it."

At Cain's quiet answer, the tension finally drained out of me. Thank goodness.

"That run was worth it."

The moment I said that and lifted my head—

My eyes met Cain's.

Unlike me, gasping for breath with my throat burning, Cain looked perfectly composed, as if a full sprint like that hadn't even counted as light exercise.

Was it the sheer gap between us that struck me as funny, or maybe it was just that running so hard had left me feeling strangely refreshed?

The moment my eyes met Cain's, a laugh burst out of me for no clear reason.

"Buhaha!"

He looked puzzled, as though he couldn't understand why I was laughing all of a sudden.

"...I don't understand what's funny."

Even at his…

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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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