I adopt the male lead

chapter 2

Karina stared blankly at Roland, forgetting what to say. She had to give him an answer, but her mind turned blank and she couldn’t think of anything.

“Sorry, I’m sorry!” the child’s big eyes began to fill with tears.

Only then did Karina come to her senses, breathing out a sigh and bending her knees to meet Roland’s eye level.

“Just once. Not twice, okay?”

Roland couldn’t answer correctly, perhaps because he was too surprised.

Karina smiled bitterly.

“Call me, Roland.”

“Mom…!”

Karina hugged the trembling Roland tightly, she felt a pleasant warmth.

She’s twenty three years old and too young to have a son this big, but it doesn’t matter if she’s called that once.

This is all Karina can do for him.

The next morning, Karina faced Lord Lenque with a stern face. He glanced over the papers on his desk without glancing at her.

“I have lots of eyes. Be careful about everything.”

“…Yes, I’ll keep it in mind.”

If someone who was not familiar with Lord Lenque had heard of it, they would have thought someone had witnessed Karina and Roland and worked for Lord Lenque.

But Karina knew more about her biological father than she had to. Lord Lenque has hidden magic servants for surveillance throughout the mansion.

They roamed the mansion and watched the people, and when they found something interesting, they told Lord Lenque.

Karina was not unaware of the trick of avoiding the magical minions.

But yesterday, she was so embarrassed that she seemed to have exposed her conversation with Roland without defense.

Lord Lenque’s words were a warning. A warning not to be involved with Roland and Melissa more than necessary.

Lord Lenque pointed to the room that Karina should need to clean with the tip of his chin.

“Get ready.”

“Yes, master.”

Karina had to go into the laboratory that Lord Lenque had spoken of, enduring surging nausea.

Even after hundreds of times, she never get used to the horrible smell after the experiment.

Karina wiped away the dirt she didn’t want to think much about with a mop, and poured clean water into it to remove the traces.

If this laboratory were to be used alone by Lord Lenque, it wouldn’t be so hard to clean it up.

Karina is the only one who enters the laboratory anyway, so she would clean it up roughly. But in a few hours, Roland and Mellisa will come into the room.

When she thinks about that time, she wanted to at least clean it up so that it looked like a room where people could stay in.

Karina sighed, looking at the wall covered with sticky purple blood.

‘He must have made Roland kill a poor thing again.’

Now the beast Lord Lenque used to train Roland was not as scary as it used to be.

It was just… pitiful.

They must have lived freely in their home.

Karina scrubbed the wall.