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.

will, then it would be the last thing he cherishes before he

That wasn’t all.

his property, he could

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

her jewelry that wasn’t even owned by

imagination

heard him, she would have been frightened. It surely would have

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

abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate child in

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

believed Ian would at least give her the right to stay in

something similar to it.

sweeping his fingers through her hair until she

soon followed her into

was the first woman whom he had ever been affectionate besides his mother.

***

Laritte who opened her eyes to the chirping of the birds.

her gaze

“Wake up.”

man larger than her was sleeping

very surprised as she expected it

to

few days left until the National Foundation Day,

hiding his

impression that they shared the same

they had to hurry.

luggage and prepared to move

in the morning to

another day, they finally arrived

just before the National Foundation Day, the place seemed to be more

their journey became nothing

accommodation on schedule, wearing a dress on time,

specifically the dress that Ian had given her.

down at

there wasn’t a mirror. However, it was replaced by Ian’s horse.

expected it’d look good on you,

looks like a

down the horse.

“Really?”

hem of

such a high-end

“Well, then……”

noticing Ian, who couldn’t take his eyes off

something

was a secret

***

among those fancy horse cars, they got off the

a gorgeous woman and a servant in a robe got off,

over his hood more

first gate leading to the

noticing the small carriage, the gatekeeper thought it

that the woman, unexpectedly, had

dress too expensive for

show me your

he read

of

someone far more humble

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

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