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.

the last thing he

That wasn’t all.

property, he could give Laritte many things to make

could have bought the best land on the continent

even gift her jewelry that wasn’t even owned by the Imperial

imagination ensued.

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

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

that every illegitimate child in the

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

would at least give her the

similar

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

her forehead and soon followed her into a

the first woman whom he had

***

who opened her eyes

turned her

“Wake up.”

was sleeping soundly next to

surprised as she expected it by

to the sound of

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

Ian hiding his

shared the same

had to

packed their luggage and

the morning to get

another day, they finally arrived in the province.

the place seemed to be more lively

then, their journey became nothing eventful.

wearing a dress on time,

dress, specifically the dress that Ian had given

down at

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

look good on you, but it looks great.”

looks like a Goddess.’

down the

“Really?”

the hem of her

high-end dress. It felt so

“Well, then……”

out of her luggage, noticing Ian,

do something first, don’t

was a secret

***

an old rental wagon among those fancy

a servant in a robe got off, people cast their eyes

pulling over

the first gate leading to the

gatekeeper thought it was a small

surprising that the woman, unexpectedly, had an

expensive for an

please show me your invitation?”

eyes widened as he read the

Duchess of

more humble than

in social conversations as the illegitimate child, who became

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