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

That wasn’t all.

Duke gained back his property, he could give Laritte many things to make

desires, he could have bought the best land on the continent and

would even gift her jewelry that wasn’t even owned by

happy imagination ensued.

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

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

due to the concessions, abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate

the rest of

least give her

something similar to it.

his fingers through her hair

her forehead and soon followed her into a

woman whom he had ever been affectionate besides his

***

eyes to the chirping of

turned her gaze sideways.

“Wake up.”

man larger than her was sleeping soundly next to her.

very surprised as she expected it

opened his eyes to the sound of her voice.

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

hiding

first impression that they shared the same

had

simply packed their luggage and prepared to move

in the morning to get to the

another day, they finally arrived

place seemed to be

since then, their journey became nothing eventful.

wearing a dress on time, and

specifically the

looked down

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

expected it’d look good on you,

looks like

down the horse.

“Really?”

the hem of her neck

such a high-end dress.

“Well, then……”

took something out of her luggage, noticing Ian, who couldn’t

something first, don’t

was a secret weapon.

***

among those fancy horse cars, they

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

over his hood more closely.

the first gate leading

carriage, the gatekeeper

woman,

dress too expensive for an outsider?’

you please show

widened as he read the letter.

of Reinhardt?’

someone far more humble than

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

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