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.

then it would be the last thing he cherishes before he got back his

That wasn’t all.

he could give Laritte many things

he could have bought the best land on

that wasn’t even owned by

happy imagination ensued.

been frightened. It surely would have reminded her of Rose all

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

concessions, abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate

in the villa alone for the rest of her life, just

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

similar to

sweeping his

her forehead and soon followed her into a

had

***

was Laritte who opened her eyes to the chirping of the

her gaze

“Wake up.”

her was sleeping soundly next to her.

it by the size of the bed.

his eyes to the sound

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

about Ian hiding his

the same bed was a luxury.

had

their luggage and prepared to move out.

early in the morning to

they finally arrived in

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

then, their journey became nothing eventful.

wearing a dress

dress, specifically the dress that Ian had

down at

wasn’t a mirror. However, it was replaced

good on

looks like

down the horse.

“Really?”

of her neck

had never seen such a high-end dress.

“Well, then……”

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

do something

was a

***

among those fancy horse cars, they got off the carriage.

a robe got off, people cast their eyes upon

pulling over his hood

gatekeeper stood at the first gate leading to

carriage, the gatekeeper thought

surprising that the woman, unexpectedly,

that dress too expensive for an outsider?’

please show

as he

Duchess of

more humble than he thought.

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

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