I Ended Up Snatching a Marriage With the Male Lead! - Chapter 27

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I ended up in a shotgun marriage with the male lead.
Chapter 27

“I went back to that Empty Lot, but you weren’t there.”
“Oh—”
Emilia, who had started to say something, quickly composed herself and spoke calmly.
“So what makes you think I’d tell Lucas where my place is?”
“Do me a favor and like me a little, won’t you?”
He let out a short, soft laugh and continued.
“You haven’t heard the news?”
“What news?”
“The people who were harmed are going to receive Compensation soon.”
“Really?”
Emilia’s eyes widened at news she hadn’t anticipated.
“Yeah. I told you I’d pass it along very well. Do you trust me now?”
Lucas waited for her answer, his eyes brimming with expectation.
But Emilia’s expression turned subtle, and she trailed off.
“I’m not sure.”
That was because she’d told Duncan the same story after parting with Lucas that day, so honestly, she couldn’t tell whether it was thanks to Lucas or not.
Just then, a shop clerk’s voice came from inside.
“Next customer, please come in!”
Emilia’s ears perked up, and she quickly ducked under his outstretched arm and slipped past.
Then, as she entered the shop, she let out a scoff in Lucas’s direction.
As if standing in my way like that will accomplish anything.
Lucas, still holding his arm out, looked at her with a somewhat dumbfounded expression.

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Emilia’s eyes went wide the moment she stepped inside the shop.
Despite its plain exterior, the interior was extraordinarily lavish and charming.
More than that, the scent alone was enough to intoxicate her with sweetness.
Emilia knelt as if under a spell, peering into the display case.
“Take your time and choose carefully!”
The clerk said cheerfully and moved on.
Emilia nodded quickly and gazed at the desserts in a daze, but she flinched at prices she’d never imagined.
‘These are incredibly expensive.’
Lora had asked if she was all right with a very high-end dessert shop, so she’d steeled herself and said it was fine.
‘Honestly, I didn’t think it would be this much.’
Emilia swallowed hard.
Meanwhile, Lucas, who had followed her in, caught sight of the woman’s small back of her head.
While Emilia was absorbed in the desserts, Lucas approached the register.
“W-will you be ordering?”
“I’ll take two of the largest dessert sets.”
“Yes, yes, one moment please.”
The clerk, who had been mesmerized by Lucas’s face, quickly nodded and went to fetch the desserts.
Lucas waited with his hand in his pocket.
Meanwhile, he looked down at Emilia, who was still locked in a staring contest with the displayed desserts.
“Just buy muffins for Ibane and Lora…”
It seemed she was calculating in her head which desserts would be most efficient to buy with that lovely mind of hers.
Lucas let out a soft laugh.
“Your desserts are ready!”
Lucas took two shopping bags in one hand and grabbed Emilia’s wrist with the other.
Her jade-green eyes looked at him in confusion.
And before she could even register shock—
“Huh?”
Emilia was pulled out of the shop by Lucas.
“What are you—”
She stopped mid-sentence when she realized her hands were empty.
She spun back toward the door, but customers who had been waiting were already filing inside.
“I haven’t bought anything yet!”
Emilia cried out to him with a flustered expression.
Lucas burst into laughter at that.
“Are you laughing right now?”
It might be just desserts to him, but she had made a promise to Ibane.
Thinking of Ibane, who had finished his homework and was waiting only for a snack, she couldn’t bring herself to laugh like that.
At that moment, Lucas hung the large shopping bags he’d been holding onto each of her wrists.
The dessert boxes inside were quite heavy, and her arms naturally dropped down under the weight.
“What is this?”
At Emilia’s bewildered question, he grinned wickedly.
“Just an apology and repayment for threatening you back then?”
Taking advantage of the moment when Emilia’s hands were bound by the shopping bags, he lifted her long hair to his lips.
“…?”
“If you don’t like it, consider this the payment?”
Emilia, caught off guard by his sudden playboy-like behavior, protested.
“Excuse me!”
And just as she tried to lift her arms along with the heavy shopping bags—
He released her hair and stepped back with a spring in his step.
“And oh, there was something I wanted to tell you earlier—a Hidden Restaurant is only special as long as people don’t know about it, right?”
Lucas grinned at her.

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Crunch, crunch—
Munch, munch—
Lora and Ibane, who had put desserts in their mouths, looked at each other with their eyes wide open.
“It’s so delicious!”
“Amazing!”
The dessert melted instantly on their tongues.
“Emilia, can I have one more?”
Ibane jumped up from his seat and asked while flapping his arms.
“Of course you can.”
With her permission, Ibane grabbed a mini muffin and popped it into his mouth with a whoop.
“Mmm!”
Ibane marveled at the different taste from before.
Lora, overcome with mischief at the sight, called out to him.
“Ibane?”
“Hm?”
“Are these much more delicious than the cookies I bake for you?”
At that, Ibane’s eyes filled with alarm.
“Oh no, I’m so sad.”
“N-no, Lora’s are amazing too…”
Ibane stopped mid-munch and glanced nervously at Lora.
“I’m just teasing, Ibane. Actually, I think these taste much better too!”
Lora, who had been pretending to cry, quickly dropped the act.
She looked at the delicate decoration placed on top of the small muffin with admiration.
“They said this decoration is made from high-quality sugar by hand.”
“Given the price, I would’ve been upset if it weren’t.”
Lora burst into laughter at Emilia’s words.
“Isn’t it a lot to buy for someone so expensive?”
Lora glanced at the large dessert box placed beside her.
“You even gave some to the maids to share.”
“It’s fine. I couldn’t eat all of it by myself anyway. And besides, I didn’t even buy them myself.”
“What?”
“They were a gift.”
“This much? Who on earth gave them to you?”
Lora’s eyes widened.
Emilia couldn’t explain in detail, so she just shrugged.
“Anyway, there weren’t really many customers there originally…”
Lora murmured, looking down at the dessert box.
“People really do have an amazing sense for finding Hidden Restaurants.”
As Emilia listened to her words, she thought of the man who had said something similar.
‘I wonder what kind of person he is.’
But she soon shook her head and popped a dessert into her own mouth.

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The Princess Palace, located in a secluded corner within the Imperial Palace.
A silver-haired girl sat at a plain desk, turning through documents.
Then, sensing a presence at the open window, Princess Selena looked up.
“You’re not a child anymore, and you still haven’t broken the habit of climbing through windows?”
She spoke with wonder as she watched the man squeeze his large frame through the small window.
“My apologies.”
At his young mistress’s rebuke, Lucas simply shrugged with composure.

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