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

That wasn’t all.

his property, he could give Laritte many things to make her

could have bought the best land on the continent and could have built a lovely home for her.

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

imagination ensued.

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

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

the concessions, abandonment, and greed that every

the villa alone for the rest of her life, just

believed Ian would at least give her the right to stay

similar to

thoughts, Ian spent his time sweeping his fingers

followed her into a deep

had ever

***

Laritte who opened her eyes to the chirping of

she turned her

“Wake up.”

man larger than her was sleeping soundly

it by the size of the

opened his eyes to the sound of

Foundation Day, there were many things that needed to be prepared in advance.

about Ian hiding his

that they shared the same bed was

they had to

their luggage and prepared

the morning to get to the carriage.

another day, they finally arrived in

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

since then, their journey became nothing eventful.

accommodation on schedule, wearing a dress on

the dress that Ian had

looked down at

since there wasn’t a mirror.

it’d look good on

like a

down the horse.

“Really?”

hem of her neck awkwardly.

a high-end dress. It felt

“Well, then……”

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

something first,

was a secret weapon.

***

in an old rental wagon among those fancy horse cars, they

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

nervous, pulling over his hood

gatekeeper stood at the first

noticing the small carriage, the gatekeeper thought it was a small inquiry.

was surprising that the woman, unexpectedly,

too expensive for an

please show

widened as he read

of Reinhardt?’

was someone far more humble

in social conversations as the illegitimate child,

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