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.

it would be the last thing he cherishes before he got back his reputation.

That wasn’t all.

property, he could give Laritte many things to make her

Laritte didn’t really have any desires, he could have bought the best land on the continent and could have built

that wasn’t even owned by

happy imagination

Laritte had heard him, she would have been frightened. It surely would have reminded her

the villa that she was nothing like him and

concessions, abandonment, and greed that

the villa alone for the rest of her life, just like her father

least give her the right to stay in that villa.

similar to it.

time sweeping his

kissed her forehead and soon followed her into a deep

whom he had ever been affectionate besides

***

eyes to the chirping

her gaze

“Wake up.”

her was

expected it by the size of the bed.

eyes to

National Foundation Day, there were

about Ian hiding his identity.

first impression that they shared the same bed was a luxury.

they had

them simply packed their luggage and prepared

the morning to get to the carriage.

day, they finally arrived in

before the National Foundation Day, the place seemed to be more lively than when they had

journey became

on schedule, wearing a dress on time, and making

a dress, specifically the

looked down

since there wasn’t a

expected it’d look good on you, but it looks

like a Goddess.’

down

“Really?”

the hem of her neck

a high-end dress. It

“Well, then……”

of her luggage, noticing Ian, who couldn’t take his eyes off her.

something first, don’t

was a secret

***

among those fancy horse cars, they

woman and a servant in a robe got off, people cast their

nervous, pulling over his hood more closely.

at the first

carriage, the gatekeeper thought it was a

was surprising that the woman, unexpectedly, had an outstanding appearance.

too expensive for an outsider?’

show me

he read

Duchess of Reinhardt?’

far more humble than he thought.

she was a popular topic in social conversations as the illegitimate

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