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

That wasn’t all.

the Duke gained back his property, he could give Laritte many things to make her happy.

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

gift her jewelry that wasn’t

imagination

she would have been frightened. It surely would have reminded

she left the villa that she was nothing like him and that their relationship would be

was due to the concessions, abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate child in the

the villa alone for the rest

least give her the right to stay in that

something similar to

of her thoughts, Ian spent his time sweeping his fingers through her hair until

forehead and soon followed

he had ever

***

Laritte who opened her eyes to the chirping of the

her gaze

“Wake up.”

man larger than her was sleeping soundly next to her.

as she expected it

eyes to the sound of

were still a few days left until the National Foundation Day, there were many things that

about Ian hiding his

impression that they shared the

had

their luggage and prepared to

in the morning to get

they finally arrived

Foundation Day, the place seemed to be more

journey became

accommodation on schedule, wearing a dress

into a dress, specifically the dress

looked down at herself.

tell how she looked since there wasn’t a mirror. However, it was replaced by

it’d look good on

like a

jumped down

“Really?”

the hem of her

such a high-end dress.

“Well, then……”

something out of her luggage, noticing Ian,

to do something first, don’t

was a secret

***

an old rental wagon among those fancy horse cars, they got off

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

nervous, pulling over his hood more closely.

gatekeeper stood at the first gate leading

gatekeeper thought

that the woman, unexpectedly, had an

dress too expensive for an

you please show me your

as he read

of

far more humble

popular topic in social conversations as the illegitimate

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