“Why isn’t he answering?”
“I told you not to come rashly!”
Bake roughly grabbed Margaret’s shoulder and dragged her into the alley.
Margaret complained of pain in her writhing shoulder, but that was not important to Bake.
Livianna was waiting in the next building.
If any unnecessary words were to reach Livianna’s ears, it would truly be the end.
It might have been forgivable once, but it was hard to expect mercy twice.
“What should I do? You’re not coming!”
Bake’s grabbed shoulder turned red, but Margaret just desperately grabbed Bake’s clothes.
Bake clenched his teeth at the sight of the woman who was habitually moistening her eyes.
She was a woman with too many unnecessary tears.
“I told you. It’s over between us.”
“Over?”
“Livianna forgave me.”
“…… Forgave? Livianna would do that.”
Her lashes, moist with emotion, fluttered slowly.
Livianna, who was like her father, the ancestral Duke of Craiton, was stubborn and inflexible.
There was no way she would easily forgive Bake, who had committed infidelity.
“It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not. The important thing is that Livianna chose me knowing everything.”
“Do you really think she chose you?”
“What?”
“Don’t hold out for nothing. She just needs a father for Meriel. And it won’t last long. Now that her real father is back, she doesn’t need a fake one.”
“……Meriel is my daughter.”
“Do you want to think so?”
Margaret’s lips curled up.
Although she pretended to be calm, she knew the man better than anyone.
“You were the first to say it. Meriel doesn’t resemble you at all.”
“……”
“And you said it. 8 years ago, Duke Pieren secretly returned to the capital, and by chance that time was, cough!”
“If you don’t want to die, don’t make unnecessary comments.”
“Ba, Ba, ke!”
Margaret, whose breath was blocked, beat Bake’s hand hastily.
The strength must have been enough to blur the vision momentarily.
“Do you understand?”
In the dim view, the flapping pupils were red.
Margaret barely nodded her head that did not move well, and then the hand choking the neck slightly loosened the strength.
“Hurk, hurk!”
Margaret grasped her throat, which was writhing, with her hand and gasped for breath.
Her legs weakened and she sat right down, but the man looking down at her didn’t even seem sorry in his eyes.
He just couldn’t control his temper and scraped the floor roughly with his shoe.
As if to wipe off something dirty.
Margaret wet her eyes at the sight of the grass crushed by Bake’s shoe heel.
The throat and the shoulder were aching, but that wasn’t important.
“…… So are you going to pretend not to know again?”
“Don’t meddle.”
“It’s not meddling, it’s worrying.”
“……”
“Sorry to see you pretending not to know that your wife met another man, and even having to raise another man’s child.”
Her hands were shaking due to the shock of just now, but it didn’t matter.
Margaret reached out, shaking and smiling like a merciful saint.
“You don’t have to pretend not to know. I’ve heard it from you when you were drunk. 8 years ago, you personally witnessed Livianna meeting Duke Pieren..”
The hands of the man and the woman, entwined slowly.
Like snakes twining their tails before mating.
Margaret stuck her tongue out at her dry lips.
She shivered at the sensation of the rough touch on the tip of her tongue.
“I won’t ask you for everything. Just promise me this one thing.”
Margaret pulled Bake’s hand and wrapped it around her lower belly.
It was not visible to the naked eye, but when touched, a subtly slightly swollen belly could be felt.
“This is your first child. Not the offspring of Duke Pieren, whom you don’t hate, but the true first child that carries your blood.”
“……”
“This child will be the true heir of Creyton.”
“……”
“You wouldn’t intend to hand over everything you have to his lineage, would you?”
That’s not to say that one could now see a child from Riviana.
Margaret rolled her eyes as if she knew everything.
Riviana had Muriel after several miscarriages, but that didn’t mean the child came into the world easily.
Despite everyone’s advice to give up on the child, Riviana stubbornly held on and gave birth to Muriel, but in doing so, Riviana’s body was ruined.
“Think well. No matter how much Muriel follows you, she will naturally look for her father in the end, and then it will be too late to regret, and you will be too pitiful.”
“……”
“Just admit it. Everyone has noticed by watching Riviana’s affection for Muriel, why are you the only one pretending not to know?”
“……”
“No matter how hard you try, there is no way that Riviana would love you.”
Riviana had only been ten years, but he had been more than that.
Margaret was proud to know more about Beike than anyone else.
The man in front of her, whether in the past or the present, had always chosen Riviana at every crossroads, and he easily kneeled before her.
Even though she was the first to start.
One could only imagine how miserable that fact was.
Margaret’s lover was a miser who even regretted giving her a gold ring, but Riviana’s husband was a pathetic man who gave only the best things to his wife.
But now that became meaningless.
Even though the man who didn’t care about his body’s wounds was restless even at Riviana’s minor bruise, even if he confessed his love to Riviana, it didn’t matter.
From the moment a small life stirred in her belly, the final winner was already determined.
No matter how well they got along, once broken trust could never be the same as before.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
