A Contract Marriage with My Child’s Father - Chapter 37
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Chapter 37
She looked as soft as flour dough, but her personality was as fiery as flames.
That’s when it happened.
“Waaah!”
The child came running toward me.
Huh! Jayden instinctively raised both arms to protect himself, but.
The child just brushed past me and rushed straight into the room.
Soon she was darting around as if looking for something.
“Mommy!”
Rummaging under the bed…
“Mommy?”
This time she opened the dresser drawer.
“Woo, Mommy!”
What is she doing?
Viola might look like a fairy from a storybook, but she wasn’t actually a fairy.
There’s no way she’d be inside a dresser drawer.
“Viola isn’t here.”
Jayden approached to stop the girl, but at that moment.
“Mommy?”
The child reached for a small box placed on the nightstand beside the bed.
Huh? That’s… that’s my treasure box…!
I carefully hid the pin Viola gave me in there…!
Jayden screamed in horror.
“Hey! What are you doing!”
But right at that moment.
“Melody, why are you here.”
Viola appeared with a terrifying expression and grabbed the girl.
* * *
Finding Melody suddenly barging into Jayden’s room, I inwardly breathed a sigh of relief.
Of course, outwardly I was making a frightening expression.
“Melody, you little rascal! You scared me. When I went to check your room, you weren’t there.”
“Hehe… Mommy…”
Even though she knew she was being scolded, Melody acted cute as if she was just happy to see me.
Sigh. I shouldn’t let my heart soften at things like this.
It was obvious she came all this way because she missed me, which made me feel sorry.
“You’re going to get properly scolded when we get back later.”
“Woo.”
As if she couldn’t even hear the word ‘scolded’, Melody happily clung to me.
Ah, come to think of it, this isn’t the time for this.
I matched eye level with Jayden, who was standing there blankly.
“I’m sorry, Young Master. This is my daughter – she didn’t bother you, did she?”
“Huh? No? Not at all!”
Jayden frantically shook his head as if hiding something.
“Really? Melody didn’t cause any trouble?”
“Not at all. Actually, we were playing well together. Right?”
“Woo?”
Haha!
Jayden hurriedly stood next to Melody and laughed awkwardly.
Don’t tell me the two of them got into a fight?
No, that can’t be.
In the original story, Jayden was such a little sister fool.
Still, just in case, I decided to check properly.
“…You two didn’t fight, did you?”
“We didn’t!”
Saying that, Jayden rolled his eyes around.
He’s definitely suspicious…
“…You two didn’t fight, did you?”
“We didn’t!”
Jayden shouted frantically but then gulped down dry saliva.
Viola was looking at him with suspicious eyes!
‘Get it together, Jayden Ashern!’
At least it wasn’t a lie. They didn’t fight.
They did have a little staring contest… but anyway, that’s not fighting, right?
Jayden decided to calmly play innocent.
His instincts strongly warned him that he mustn’t let her find out he didn’t think favorably of that little girl.
Jayden raised the corners of his mouth as if nothing was wrong, but then felt a bit wronged.
“Woo. Mommy.”
Melody was clinging to Viola beside him.
Thinking about it, he hadn’t done anything wrong yet! She was the one who barged in without permission!
This situation felt unfair – Melody was acting nonchalant while only he didn’t know what to do.
But instead of showing his emotions, Jayden decided to think positively about the current situation.
‘If I get along well with her, I might be able to meet Viola more often than now.’
So he quietly approached Melody and tried to act friendly…
“What have you been doing? Ha. Ha. It looks fun?”
“Hmph!”
The child just acted difficult.
What, I don’t like you much either! Jayden’s lips pouted out.
I was the one who kindly approached you first! Is it enough to just resemble Viola?
Jayden was about to shout that but held back. Then he started rolling his head around.
His etiquette teacher had once said that to survive in noble society, it was important to understand the structure of power well.
Right now, he was clearly the weaker party.
Surely that child must be a very precious existence to Viola…
‘Her always hurrying to leave work in the evening must be because of that child…’
Jayden suddenly envied Melody. Unlike him, who could only meet Viola when he was sick, that child could naturally be with her mother.
As he was blankly staring at the child.
“Woo!”
What are you looking at!
This time, without him even saying anything, she snorted at him.
She really seemed to dislike him quite a bit.
And the reason she hated him was probably because he monopolized Viola during the day…
Huh?
Then Jayden realized. Their goals were the same. In that case…!
His etiquette teacher had said on another day: yesterday’s enemy is today’s friend!
A brilliant idea flashed in Jayden’s mind.
Jayden hurriedly grabbed Melody’s tiny hand. And then.
Hahaha!
He laughed out loud very loudly.
“Huh?”
Just as Melody was about to act prickly again, he hurriedly whispered in the child’s ear.
“Hey, pretend we’re friends.”
“Ugh!”
I don’t want to!
As expected, no friendly response came back.
“Hmm? You two really did fight, didn’t you? The atmosphere is strange…”
As Viola narrowed her eyes and observed, Jayden shook his head vigorously.
“No! We just had something to talk about between ourselves!”
After that, he pulled Melody’s hand toward a spot beside the bed where Viola’s gaze couldn’t reach.
“Ugh.”
What’s this about.
Fortunately, Melody followed along and asked. Jayden spoke to the child in whispers with the most persuasive tone he could muster.
“You don’t like it when I keep monopolizing Viola during the day, right?”
“Hmph.”
You call that talking?
At first it was hard to understand what she was saying, but once he realized they had the same goal, it became easier to understand the child’s words.
I thought so. In that case…
“Let’s form an alliance.”
“Huh?”
What’s that?
“It means we’re on the same side.”
Despite her unfriendly attitude, Melody’s ears twitched as if she was secretly curious about what he meant.
“From now on, when Viola comes sometimes, you come too.”
Then Viola won’t have to leave work right away, which is good for me.
“Instead, we’ll all three eat dinner together before going. How about it?”
And you won’t have to be separated from Viola during the day, which is good for you.
Jayden confidently curled up the corners of his mouth.
Melody’s head, which had been pretending indifference, immediately turned around.
The conditions were too good to refuse!
“…”
“…”
Jayden and Melody silently faced each other and exchanged glances.
Intense gazes were exchanged.
And soon.
Clap-!
The two passionately slapped their palms together. The children’s expressions were more resolute than ever.
A dramatic agreement!
Jayden and Melody came back out from the corner with their arms around each other’s shoulders.
Their heights didn’t match so it looked awkward, but the parties involved didn’t think that far.
“Kyaaaa~”
“Hahaha! Playing with me is fun, right? Uhahahaha!”
“Huh?”
Viola seemed puzzled watching the two who had instantly become close friends.
Noticing this, Melody and Jayden acted even more shamelessly happy. This is the only way for both of us to be happy!
Fortunately, their desperate acting with a combined total of 10 years of life experience—6 and 4 years respectively—was successfully convincing.
“Come to think of it, there aren’t any peers in the manor, are there? Do you like Melody?”
“Yeah! I mean, when we talked earlier, we seemed to understand each other.”
“Does Melody also enjoy playing with Young Master Jayden?”
“Ugh ugh! Ugh ugh ugh!”
The child raised her thumb high and thrust it out in front of Viola.
This was the moment. Jayden hurriedly brought up the main point.
“Viola, Viola.”
“What is it?”
“Can’t you sometimes come with her? Huh? I’m bored.”
“Ugh ugh. Ugh ugh ugh… Mother.”
Melody also joined in and started pleading.
Viola tilted her head slightly as if pondering the sudden proposal.
The children were anxious.
“Huh? Please, please.”
“Ugh ugh, ugh!”
Both children clasped their hands together and looked up at Viola earnestly.
Sparkle sparkle. Two pairs of calf-like eyes launched a desperate eye attack.
‘…That little one. She’s pretty good?’
Looking at Melody whose eyes had become moist as if she might cry at any moment, Jayden thought.
When I first saw her, she had Viola’s face but got angry like a demon hag, so I didn’t like her…
I still don’t like her, but at least she was doing her acting properly.
It was quite good acting for a four-year-old.
And the result of that acting was…
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