The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 15

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“What are you talking about? You said your feet hurt.”

The woman called Camilla fussed as she looked down at her daughter Ruby.

“I’m fine! Ruby is eight years old now, so I can be patient and wait this much.”

When the child smiled brightly, her twin braided hair swayed back and forth.

She had glamorous blonde hair like her mother, and round, large eyes too.

The girl dressed in a cute and charming dress looked exactly like a princess from a fairy tale.

‘But who are they?’

A mother and daughter who could enter the Abner Ducal Mansion with Jayden Abner’s guidance, no less.

“What brings you here, madam?”

At Roger’s question, Camilla spoke while openly displaying her uncomfortable emotions.

“I heard the Abner family took in a sponsored child?”

“….”

“How could my brother-in-law do such a thing? When I asked him to take care of our Ruby all this time, he wouldn’t even give it a second glance!”

“…Madam.”

Camilla kept fanning her face with her hand fan.

“When I heard that news, I was truly so hurt….”

“Where did you hear that story?”

Camilla sighed as if she couldn’t believe it.

“I’m Camilla Coel. That Camilla Coel who knows everything about the capital down to the location of mouse holes in empty house kitchens!”

“You heard it from Young Master Jayden.”

Camilla’s mouth, which had been chattering nonstop, closed shut.

It seemed to be the correct answer.

I sighed inwardly.

Jayden Abner.

I knew he was human scum, but.

‘Spreading internal mansion affairs around without even the family head mother’s permission?’

I had heard plenty about Jayden’s usual despicable behavior even in my previous life.

Unlike Sharon Abner who was perfect and wise in everything, Jayden was violent and impatient.

‘That’s why he still hasn’t received the title of Young Duke.’

What mother would want to pass down the family to such a worthless son?

I recalled how he had casually slapped Roger’s cheek just moments ago.

Meanwhile, one of the maids quickly ran toward Sharon Abner’s office.

She seemed to be going to inform her about the visitors.

“Please wait in the reception room for now. I’ll report your visit to the mistress.”

Camilla glared at Roger, but soon pretended to give in and walked toward the reception room.

That’s when it happened.

“Huh?”

Ruby, who had been following behind, stopped in place when she saw me standing in one corner of the corridor.

“Ruby. Don’t get distracted and come here quickly….”

Camilla, who had been urging her, also spotted me.

Camilla’s eyes staring at me grew large, then narrow, then large again.

“No way, no way.”

She moved her lips and raised her index finger toward me.

Her trembling fingertip traced over the long hair that Miel and Soya had combed and my plain indoor clothes.

Unlike Ruby, I had no ornaments in my hair, no fancy dress or shoes.

Only then did I realize why Camilla was making such an expression.

This was the mansion of the Grand Duke Abner family, counted as one of the major pillars of the Taranta Empire.

In this place decorated from floor to ceiling with rare stones, gold, and expensive furniture, there was one little child in extremely plain attire.

“I heard rumors and thought it couldn’t be true, but she’s really a commoner?”

What happened next occurred in an instant.

“Madam!”

“Ugh.”

Before Roger could stop her, Camilla quickly approached.

Then she grabbed my cheek with her hand full of rings.

“My goodness, how could such a decision be made…!”

She held my face and turned it this way and that to examine it.

Screams erupted from among the maids behind us.

“Young miss!”

I could see Soya covering her mouth with a pale face.

“Answer me, Roger. Is that child really this, this…!”

“Ah, ahhh….”

I made a small groaning sound.

I felt a stinging sensation as the jeweled rings dug into my cheek.

“That person is the mistress’s ward!”

Roger, who had rushed over immediately, blocked the space between me and Camilla.

As her hand fell away, I felt a throbbing pain in my cheek.

Her daughter Ruby was still looking at me with curious eyes.

“A ward? A ward?! Then it’s really true that the child my brother-in-law decided to sponsor is a commoner?!”

Camilla grabbed the back of her neck.

Roger urgently called the servants.

“Miel, Soya. Come and attend to the young miss!”

Miel and Soya hurried over.

“Young miss…!”

Miel sobbed as she carefully pressed my cheek where red marks remained.

“I’m, I’m fine.”

After giving a small answer, I was carried in Soya’s arms and quickly went up the stairs.

Ruby stared intently at me like that.

“Is she really crazy?! No matter what, how could she grab a young child’s face so roughly?!”

“Miel, calm down.”

I kept my eyes tightly shut while listening to Miel and Soya’s whispered voices.

After receiving treatment, I sat on the sofa with my eyes tightly closed from shock.

Miel seemed to think I had fallen asleep and covered me with a thick blanket.

“Even if she is Camilla, isn’t this too much? Always acting without manners, showing up whenever she pleases! Now even to the young miss…!”

“The, the mistress will surely take ap, appropriate measures….”

Despite Soya’s restraint, Miel’s anger didn’t seem to subside easily.

“Frankly speaking, helping when the family was in trouble. How long does she plan to milk that?! Anyway, the money borrowed back then was all repaid with interest!”

‘Borrowed money?’

My closed eyes opened slightly.

The figures of the two people standing at a distance came into my blurry vision.

“The, the mistress must have her reasons. Ca, Camilla’s assets aren’t just a penny or two.”

“Still….”

“She thinks it’s a re, relationship worth maintaining, so that’s why she’s overlooking it.”

“But that crazy woman is crossing the line!”

“Miel! Watch your wo, words! What if you get beaten again like last time…!”

When Soya’s gaze turned this way, I quickly closed my slightly opened eyes again.

“What about the young miss.”

A small silence fell.

“She must have been hurt by those words about being a commoner.”

“…She’s someone who understands everything well.”

Both of them were worried about me.

But I was really fine.

‘Technically speaking, I am a commoner after all.’

How long have nobles been making a fuss about social status anyway?

The contempt and insults toward commoners were things I had experienced dozens of times in my previous life.

Even in my previous life as a princess, I heard all kinds of curses just because I was from an orphanage.

‘Of course, it was a bit shocking how she roughly grabbed a child’s cheek and did this and that.’

But I’m not the type to get hurt by things like this.

It’s just that because I’m in a child’s body, my hands are shaking and my legs have gone completely weak.

Still, the fortunate thing was that I had roughly figured out the situation.

‘Countess Camilla has a lot of money, they said.’

When I heard those words, something I had forgotten came to mind.

Before Sharon Abner came to power, the Abner family was on the verge of complete ruin.

Turning around such a situation isn’t easy.

Unless there’s solid funding backing you up.

‘Sharon Abner must have borrowed money from Camilla in the early days of her rule.’

Then it made sense that she had maintained a friendly relationship with that woman until now.

There’s nothing bad about having a rich person as a friend.

‘And Camilla…’

Currently, Abner had surpassed the Longton family in military and weapons sectors.

Of course, the potential for future development was also great.

The Northern Region, which was considered barren land, had enormous undeveloped resources sleeping beneath it.

‘The problem is the future.’

Currently, Sharon Abner was leading the family without any issues.

But her only heir was Jayden Abner.

‘Sharon Abner doesn’t trust Jayden at all. Not even a little.’

Even in my previous life, the Abner family had many rumors about this.

In short, it was a tremendous family with no suitable heir to inherit it.

I nodded inwardly.

‘Then the answer is clear.’

Camilla’s intentions were obvious without even looking.

She wanted to push her forward as an adopted daughter of the Abner family.

“What? She’s here?”

Her eight-year-old daughter, Ruby.

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