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Chapter 74


A dark alley, where the streetlamp light flickered faintly.

Cain pulled Viola into his arms and enclosed her.

"Ngh..."

The woman trembling in his arms groaned as if her throat were being strangled, and clutched her own neck with a frail hand.

The sound of her labored breathing pressed against his chest, unmistakable.

It was the first time he'd ever seen Viola tremble with such devastating terror.

He studied Viola's face, visible in the dim light. Her already pale face had gone white as a sheet, without a shred of color left.

"It's all right."

Cain soothed her on instinct.

Viola, still gasping pitifully for breath, gripped Cain's coat tightly with trembling hands.

"Viola."

"Hng..."

As if trying to flee some terrifying reality, she buried herself even deeper into his chest.

Her small, thin body was completely hidden from view, shielded entirely behind Cain's broad back.

But the woman was…

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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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