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 cherishes before he got back his reputation.

That wasn’t all.

property, he could give Laritte many

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

her jewelry that wasn’t even owned by the

happy imagination

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

had already accepted from the time she left the villa that she was nothing

judgment was due to the concessions, abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate child in the world had

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

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

something similar to it.

time sweeping his fingers

kissed her forehead and soon followed her into a

woman whom he had ever been

***

eyes to the

turned her

“Wake up.”

larger than her was sleeping soundly

wasn’t very surprised as she expected it by

quickly opened his eyes to the

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

about Ian hiding his identity.

shared the

had

luggage and prepared to

outside early in the morning to get

another day, they finally arrived in the province.

because it was just before the National Foundation Day, the place seemed to be more lively than when they

journey became

on schedule, wearing a dress on

specifically the dress that

looked down at herself.

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

expected it’d look good on you, but

like

jumped down

“Really?”

patched the hem of

seen such a high-end dress. It

“Well, then……”

of her luggage, noticing Ian, who

do something first, don’t

a secret

***

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

servant in a robe got off,

pulling over his hood more closely.

stood at the first gate leading to

gatekeeper thought it

surprising that the woman, unexpectedly, had an

dress too expensive

you please show me

he read the letter.

of Reinhardt?’

someone far more humble than he

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

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