When The Count’s Illegitimate Daughter Gets Married

Chapter 7

When Ian was young, his mother Selena had nothing to do ever since she began to take care of herself and Ian at the villa.

The Duke also couldn’t serve as a caretaker to her, and no one came to the cottage in the mountains.

Selena, who liked to be in a calm atmosphere from the beginning, was satisfied with him.

She would knit often. She could hold the wool all day long.

Young Ian would often run around the villa and come in exhausted.

He would hear the sound of noodles squirting as it boiled down the stove while falling asleep.

Turning her head, Selena would start to knit while sitting on the rocking chair.

Ian, who collapsed after not being able to speak to Laritte, had a dream.

He went back to face his ‘enemy’ who used to live in the villa with his precious mother.

“Did you wake up?”

As Selena said that, Ian blinked and shifted his upper body on the bed.

He felt like he had forgotten something, so he peered at both of his hands and saw a little child’s fingers.

‘I am sure they were a lot bigger than this.’

“I’m going to have breakfast. Betty said you have been working hard.”

Selena put down what she was knitting and raised Ian up.

He felt a sense of Déjà vu but soon followed her.

The villa where he stayed as a child was as colorful as a peacock without a speck of dust.

But there was also a cozy side.

A clean, soft-colored wallpaper, that could be seen under the light of an electric lamp, while walking along the corridor….

“Are you going to eat here? You could have let me send it up.”

“Good morning, Master.”

“Did Master sleep without washing up again?”

The employees, who followed to serve Selena Reinhardt, were usually energetic and active.

It was the result of the generosity of the Duke of Reinhardt at that time.

Selena was quiet and fragile. Betty was afraid that she might lose her energy sooner than expected.

In addition, Selena took good care of the employee.

“Can you serve my breakfast and Ian’s?”

“Yes, madam! There’s an amazing smoked dish. There was a meat festival down there, and I brought the best quality from the market.”

Cough cough

“Oh, Betty. You don’t have a cold, do you?”

She was a woman who would worry if a maid was sick or not.

She was elegant and smooth, and she did not require much formality.

That’s why the employees would often forget that their family was the second most powerful house after the royal family.

for always being loyal to Selena.

was a time

Selena’s rapid deterioration had

snow, a servant volunteered to walk

got frostbite all over his body, they took care of him like a family.

not cold, madam. I had something stuck in

tell me. What if you ignore it and it gets

getting cold, there is a

at the table,

maid,

your nanny has sent a letter saying that she will arrive at the villa tomorrow

meat and put it in his mouth. Then he raised his

Selena talked first.

has more grey hair when she comes back….

up early. Does this worry you

“I’m fine, mother.”

popped out on Ian’s mind about

his

I will have gray

something grazed his

she over twenty?’

a silver-haired young woman.’

she made all the time seemed to have

she was uncomfortable

who was it?’

tried to recall the woman’s name. She said

a child. What wife?’

up from her seat.

Betty asked,

you finished?”

very well today. I will

haven’t been eating well for days

beckoned Ian to eat slowly and

to the second floor with the rest in

favorite rocking chair. Where is it now?

that the rocking chair was in

expected, Selena was sitting there.

finished your

worried about you, mother…..”

sometimes treat me like I am a fragile grass. It’s really just indigestion.”

Selena. She was sitting on the rocking

seem to

is taking care of me so well. So don’t

he lay down on the bed, with his mind at ease.

white ceiling filled his view. The light seemed brighter as if

closed his eyes at it

Please,

and the

***

Ian woke up.

ceiling similar to that of his dream just now, but he couldn’t win back those tens of

into

was shedding

he was sad, but because of

was dipping a handkerchief into cold water and wiping the area

“You’re up.”

him with her

“I….”

cough cough

swollen and it was