A Shadow Cast in Paradise (23 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 78

Shade looked at the tiny child in his arms, no bigger than a puppy.

After shaking off Eklas’s lackeys, he’d emerged into this quiet corridor only to find an absurd little child running about.

One moment she was doing tumbling flips in a dress, the next she burst into sudden laughter all by herself.

‘Why is there a child like this in the Vittel household…?’

The Vittel family wasn’t the sort to let an unruly child wander freely.

‘…Is she perhaps a fledgling bird undergoing training?’

Having grown overly sensitive, Shade wondered if this child might be someone Eklas had begun training from an early age.

He feared that if he left her alone, fooled by her innocent appearance, she might scurry off to report everything straight to Eklas… But then—

‘Damn, she looks just like her.’

Shade stared into the child’s eyes, brimming as if ready to burst into tears at any moment.

Had he become so obsessed with searching for her?

He saw Luise in the child’s eyes.

Moreover, even the beautiful platinum hair and the delicate features that belonged unmistakably to Luise Ideana…

‘She’s the spitting image of young Luise.’

It baffled him—why did his heart ache so much over a mere stranger’s child?

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