Chapter 17

“Would you like to wash up first?”

Laritte asked as her eyes fell on the small bathroom in one corner of the room.

“……What?”
“Are you not going to wash up? There seems to be plenty of water.”
“Ah, yes. Yes…..”

Trying to hide his agitation, he stepped towards it.

He brushed off his thoughts and returned back to the room after cleaning himself up.

Laritte was already asleep on one side of the bed.

Before he became a swordmaster, he was still skilled in swordsmanship, but he did not develop much of his physical strength.

But Laritte was different.

Ian didn’t know that Laritte began to take care of her meals only recently.

Although she didn’t use much of her energy, the journey must have been tiring.

Ian shook her carefully, but she didn’t open her eyes.

Only the sound of her breathing peacefully reached his ears.

‘Sigh.’

Eventually, he sighed, lifting her in his arms and laying her down properly.

It was strange to think about whether or not she was waiting for him.

“Don’t you think you should cover yourself with a blanket?”
“Mm-hmm.”

She made a sound in her sleep.

Ian lied down next to her gently, covering themselves with the blanket.

The bed was so narrow that it forced him to shift towards her.

The ends of her silver hair were tickling his arm.

He turned towards her.

As he stared at her, a gentle smile crept upon his face unknowingly.

He didn’t know, but such a smile was also noticed by him by his nanny when he was a child.

However, it wasn’t a moment to cherish such childhood memories.

The two had spent one long season together and came all the way here.

The highlights were in front of them now.

The word companion could not be more fitting than it was now.

Ian whispered softly in her ear.

“Hey.”
“…….”

She couldn’t open her eyes, but she tossed and turned.

Eventually, she shifted into his arms. It was something to be felt all the way.

Anyway, they were married. He wished this moment would not end in a flash.

thing he cherishes before he got back his

That wasn’t all.

the Duke gained back his property, he could give Laritte

really have any desires, he could have bought the best land on the continent and could have built a lovely home for

jewelry that wasn’t even owned by the

imagination

would have been frightened. It surely would have

already accepted from the time she left the villa that she was nothing like him and that

abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate child in the world had to suffer

to live in the villa alone for the rest of her life, just like her father had planned.

her

similar

Ian spent his time sweeping his fingers through her hair until she

soon followed her into

had ever been affectionate besides his

***

opened her eyes to the chirping of the

turned her gaze

“Wake up.”

man larger than her was sleeping soundly next to her.

it by the size

to the sound of

left until the National Foundation Day, there were many things that needed to be prepared

hiding his identity.

that they shared the same bed

had

their luggage and prepared to

the morning

they finally arrived in

place seemed to be

their journey became nothing eventful.

a dress on time, and making other

dress, specifically the dress that Ian had given

down

tell how she looked since there wasn’t a

good on you, but it looks

looks like a

down the

“Really?”

of her

had never seen such a high-end dress. It felt

“Well, then……”

noticing Ian,

do something

was a secret

***

arriving in an old rental wagon among those fancy horse cars, they got off the carriage.

in a robe got off, people cast their eyes

over his hood more

stood at the first gate leading

small carriage, the gatekeeper thought it was a

the woman, unexpectedly, had an outstanding appearance.

too expensive for

you please show

eyes widened as he read the

of

was someone far more humble than

was unaware of the fact that she was a popular topic in social conversations as the

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