I adopt the male lead

chapter 19

“Roland!”

Karina shouted sternly but she couldn’t control her beating heart.

‘Maybe it was because of me that he helped Roland.’

Her face is burning. A child’s eyes are pure. Roland wasn’t the kid to joke with or lie to Karina in this situation. That very fact made Karina suffocate. After all, what if the impossible happened?

“Don’t say those words. And it’s not what you think it is.”

“Why?”

“Your Grace the Duke has a very, very high position… You can be arrested just by saying that.”

“Is mom going to report me?”

“Mom, are you going to report Roland?”

Karina ended up laughing at the children’s chorus.

“No, but someone might hear it.”

“Why are you arrested if anyone hears you?”

Karina was speechless for a moment and stared at Roland. It made her wonder if this was the moment of the ‘why’ disease that came to children at least once.

“People like the Duke should marry people like princesses. It’s all decided.”

“But mommy is as pretty as a princess.”

It was Melissa who stepped in. Karina hugged Melissa with a smile. She was glad to finally be freed from Roland’s baptism of questions.

“I’m dying to thank you. But it’s not me who’s pretty, it’s you guys. Do you understand?”

Suddenly Melissa started to touch Karina’s hair and ruffled it, then asked with a serious face.

“Mom, then you’re not getting married? With the Duke?

Karina burst out laughing.

“Never, it’ll never happen.”

“That’s a relief…”

“Huh?”

It was an unexpected answer.

“I don’t want my mom to get married.”

“I won’t, I won’t.”

Now, it seems like Melissa was worried that Karina would really become the Duchess and abandon them both.

It’s a ridiculous worry but a child’s. She didn’t want to hurt her delicate heart, so Karina repeatedly denying it to reassure Melissa.

Karina laid Melissa down who breathed out with a relaxed expression on her face, and casually looked into the small hand mirror she placed on the table next to the children’s bed.

‘…!’

For a moment, Karina almost made a clumsy scream. The woman in the mirror was neatly dressed, but her hair was all scattered with dust.

“Ah…”

A long groan came out of Karina’s mouth. She was so busy cleaning the house and preparing the children that she didn’t really care about what she looked like.

Karina let out a laugh. It was because she was ashamed of herself, who was fluttered for a while by the children’s words. Claude was amazed by the look of Karina’s messy appearance, so he continued to stare at her and even laughing.

‘Yeah, I would have laughed too.’

She dresses the children neatly and herself very hard as well. But her hair is all messy. Karina looked back and forth at Roland and Melissa, who quietly entered their blankets.