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~I Became the Male Lead's Adopted daughter/I Became the Male Lead's Wife!~
~Chapter 28~
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"Annelise. Leonia." A familiar voice called out which made the 3 people in the room turn their head at the familiar voice.
They saw Duke Phileo enter the room with 2 jackets in his arms.
Annelise smiled as well as Leonia.
"Mis-" Leonia spoke up before she stopped and got off the couch and skipped to Duke Phileo.
Annelise, Rupert, and Duke Phileo stared at Leonia.
Leonia glanced up at Duke Phileo with a flustered look as she looked back down as her hands were behind her back. Leonia was moving her body softly as a pout was on her lips.
Annelise noticed Leonia's shy look as she stared at Leonia with stars in her eyes. Awe was evidence on her face staring at Leonia.
Before it got runied by you know who.....
Duke Phileo...
"If you need to go to the restroom, then don't hold it in and go. It's unhealthy." Duke Phileo said blankly.
Annelise eyebrows twitched as a tick mark appeared on her forehead.
'Is he dumb?! Haven't he ever seen someone shy?!! I mean didn't he see his cousin act shy before!!' Annelise thought as her eyebrows twitched.
Leonia immediately became angry as her face became red as a tomato.
'Oh my...' Rupert thought as he put a hand on his forehead as he sweat dropped.
"A shy child really does know how to yell. My ears are about to fall off." Duke Phileo said blankly.
"YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WOMEN! YOU SHOULD SAY THAT "WE SHOULD GO OUT TO PICK FLOWERS" IN TIMES LIKE THIS!" Annelise yelled as she got up from the couch and walked towards Leonia.
"What did the flowers do wrong? And why are you yelling at your own husband for? I mean i did nothing wrong at all." Duke Phileo stated as he kneeled down and put Leonia's jacket on her.
Annelise and Leonia were about to fully explode.
Annelise took a deep breath. Annelise sigh.
Duke Phileo got up and put Annelise jacket on her. Duke Phileo stared at his wife as he still doesn't understand why his own wife yelled at him.
Though what he hates was that his wife mostly is on Leonia's side and never on his side during arguments.
Annelise noticed his stare and sweat dropped at his hard stare and she glanced away.
"Rupert." Duke Phileo called out which caught said person's attention.
"Prepare for the guests to leave." Duke Phileo said in a serious tone as he now stared at Rupert with narrowed eyes.
Annelise blinked staring at her husband then she glanced at Rupert.
'I really want to know what Phileo did to the guests.' Annelise thought with a sheepish smile.
"I shall return after seeing them off, then." Rupert replied bowing.
Annelise picked up Leonia as she carried her in her arms,
"Bye!" Annelise exclaimed waving happily with a closed eye smile.
"Bye-Bye!" Leonia exclaimed also waving happily.
Duke Phileo glanced at Annelise then at Leonia as his arm was around Annelise's waist.
"How's your body?" Duke Phileo asked Leonia.
"It's okay." Leonia answered.
"Do you have a fever?" Duke Phileo asked.
"Nope! Look!" Leonia said as she moved her bangs and showed her bare forehead.
Duke Phileo touched Leonia's forehead which made Leonia laugh from the tickles.
Annelise smiled as she let out a soft laugh seeing Leonia laugh but also a big smile on her face.
"You both are finally laughing." Duke Phileo said.
Annelise and Leonia flinched as their eyes became widen and their lips parted as sweat ran down their cheeks.
"Why'd you stop?" Duke Phileo questioned.
"Uh uh uh...." Leonia only said.
'THAT'S BECAUSE!!! WE'RE SEEING EACH OTHER FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER I BALLED MY EYES OUT!' Annelise and Leonia screamed in their minds.
Leonia became red as she started sweating and she became uncomfortable.
'I MAY BE 7 YEARS OLD ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT NOT INSIDE!' Leonia screamed in her mind.
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"Unlike his childlike appearance, he has the brain of an adult!" Conan Edogawa exclaimed
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Leonia stared at Annelise and saw her not uncomfortable and she was shocked on how she is not uncomfortable.
Though even though Annelise doesn't look uncomfortable on the outside the inside is different.....
Duke Phileo stared at the duo in confusion.
'I didn't say something wrong, right...?' Leonia thought pondering as she put a hand over her chins.
"Now that i think about it, did you both gain weight?" Duke Phileo asked.
"Granny Kara and Pelica said me and mom lost the weight we finally gained after being ill." Leonia said.
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In the garden
"Truthfully~ Me and mom like muscles more than fat!" Leonia said which made Annelise nod her head in agreement.
"Leo." Duke Phileo called out.
"Ima bulge bulge tone 'em up!" Leonia said flexing her arms with stars in her eyes.
"Hm?" Leonia sounded out as she heard him.
Annelise and Leonia both look up at Duke Phileo.
"Leonia is too long to call." Duke Phileo said.
Annelise and Leonia still stared at him.
Annelise soon had a smug face as she stared at Duke Phileo.
Duke Phileo noticed as he immediately spoke up.
"I'm just saying that I'll call my daughter by a pet name, is all. After all i already have many nicknames for my wife shouldn't my daughter also have a nickname." Duke Phileo explained as he lightly coughed and glanced away from his wife smug look and his daughter staring at him while sweat ran down his cheek.
Annelise smirked and noticed the tiny red blush on the tip of his ear.
Annelise turned her head and her smirk grew wider. She loved this so much!!!
Annelise turned her head back around and gave a gentle smile.
Duke Phileo turned his head back and looked at Annelise and Leonia.
"I'm your husband as well as dad and you both are family." Duke Phileo said.
"Do you know why?" Duke Phileo asked.
"Huh...? Well isn't that because....you adopted me and you love mom but also she was my adopted mother, Mist-" Leonia said but was cut off.
"No. About your mother it is part true but the other part is because you both agreed to become my family." Duke Phileo said poking Leonia's nose.
Annelise and Leonia stared at Duke Phileo.
~The moment Annelise crossed paths with Duke Boleoti and the moment Leonia dared to stand in Duke Boleoti's way,~
~They both became family whose existence of one another has become invaluable.~
"So" Duke Phileo began.
"There's no reason for you both to think about who you are." Duke Phileo stated as Annelise's eyes glossed as did Leonia's.
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~Everything else was unnecessary.~
Just "Dad's Mother's Daughter" and "Family"
We're all.
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Duke Phileo looked at the mother and daughter duo.
Tears started to fall down Annelise face.
"I guess you both really were in pain this time." Duke Phileo said letting out a little laugh.
"To think you both cry like this instead of make retorts like you both normally do." Duke Phileo said staring at Annelise and Leonia who's tears were falling down their cheeks.
Leonia held her mother tightly as Annelise hugged Leonia while tears fall down their faces.
"D-Dad..." Leonia mumbled as she cried.
Annelise smiled as tears still were falling down her cheeks as she handed Leonia to her husband.
Duke Phileo took Leonia and brought Annelise close to him as he hugged both of them.
"Mm." Duke Phileo sounded out.
"Phileo...!" Annelise called out as she clutched her husband's shirt.
"Mm, sunshine." Duke Phileo said.
"Tell me everything. About being beaten at the orphanage, or feeling like throwing up after eating too much..." Duke Phileo said bringing both Annelise and Leonia closer to him.
"About how the Boleoti mansion feels like a place where murder would occur, Or how you want to fill your jar full of strawberry milk candies, about the friends from the orphanage you want to see again, Or about your adventure to town, about the friends you made in town while dancing and how you want to go out and dance once again, and about how sad you feel when your husband as well as dad is away from home because of work." Duke Phileo said as memories flashed in Annelise and Leonia's minds.
"Even when you both tremble with loneliness, or when you both have something to ponder about like a fool...." Duke Phileo kept explaining as both Annelise and Leonia listen as their eyes slowly closed.
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A couple of minutes later
"...Are you both done crying?" Duke Phileo asked.
"Yeah. We are done." Annelise and Leonia said having big red eyes because of crying for 2 straight days.
"Shall we walk while holding hands?" Duke Phileo asked as he held out his hands.
"Mm." Both Annelise and Leonia answered as Annelise took his left hand while Leonia took his right hand.
"Dad. I quite like you, you know." Leonia said as the family of 3 walked hand and hand.
"...What's the "quite" for?" Duke Phileo questioned with a face of disbelief.
"It means i don't want to be teased." Leonia answered with a big smile on her face as Annelise chuckled.
"I won't hate it if you can't say it." Duke Phileo said with a smirk.
Annelise and Leonia laugh.
"Mom! I want to know what people call you when you go out dancing?" Leonia said.
"Well...." Annelise started as she thought of what people call her.
Duke Phileo got interested as he listened.
"People call me Lise." Annelise said.
"Lise?" Leonia questioned tilting her head.
"Yes, which means god's promise. Also people call me a goddess, a fairy, nymph, and more but those are the 4 main names people call me." Annelise said with a sheepish smile.
Leonia smiled.
"I understand why people call you that mom! Though mom your names mostly revolves god." Leonia said.
"Yes, it does doesn't it." Annelise said nodding her head.
"Do you like people calling you that more than what i call you." Duke Phileo said looking at Annelise with a hard stare.
Annelise flinched.
"Ah! No! Your names are sweet and i like you calling me them!" Annelise said with a confident look on her face.
Duke Phileo hard stare soften as he looked forward and you can easily tell he felt proud.
Annelise and Leonia laughed.
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An unfamiliar world,
An unfamiliar Body,
Longing for the things that i had originally.
Despair that comes out whenever hope falters.
Worrying about what will happen if his future is in jeopardy because of me and mom.
With the help of "Dad" and "Mom", my new family,
All those memories and emotions will now become nothing more than a fairy tale.
I will put it on a bookshelf called memories, deep in my heart.
I may end up holding on to it for a long time,
Leonia ran up and jumped towards her mom and dad as she had her arms open.
Both Annelise and Duke Phileo had their arms open as they caught her.
They hugged Leonia as both Annelise and Leonia laughed with a big smile. While Duke Phileo smiled with a soft look on his face.
Then run to my dad's and mom's arms.
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Chapter 28 complete!!
I am sorry I was meant to work on this yesterday and post it yesterday but I grew tired when I laid down to take a rest since I been sitting all day.
And well I fell asleep so I am sorry anyways hope you like this chapter!!
Love you!!!