When The Count’s Illegitimate Daughter Gets Married

Chapter 37

The aristocratic couples who married politically did not often have proper relationships.

So, Laritte thought it’d be a better outcome if she and Ian were friends.

Ian could understand why she chose the word ‘friend’, but it somehow stung him in the chest and made him emotional. Why? He didn’t know.

Unable to read the sudden change in Ian’s features, Laritte continued.

“I thought we could still talk to each other sometimes even after you have a mistress.”

His ears perked up in disbelief.

A mistress?

He had never thought about that matter, let alone imagine it. And he would never do it in this lifetime.

With one corner of his mouth twisted up, he frowned.

“Who dared to let that thing slip out of their tongue? Tell me, and I’ll slice off their tongue.”

Laritte stopped digging the soil with her fingers.

“Aren’t you going to leave me…..for it?”
“It’s not even worth considering. What on earth! Why would you think that?”

He was furious.

“Is that why you distanced yourself from me?”

Ian couldn’t finish when she grabbed him by both shoulders. The dust on her fingers spattered on the hem of his clothes.

But the two of them paid no attention to it.

The stream and the houses in the distance disappeared, leaving only Laritte and Ian. It felt like only the two of them were sitting in a white blank space with no single breeze.

“Then, are you going to have a baby with me?”

Her calm gaze bored into Ian’s.

Immediately, a rush of embarrassment fell over him.

“A-A baby?”

He covered his face with his large hand, hiding his flushed image.

She stared at him, casually withdrawing her hand.

For her, having a baby meant the same thing as connecting two generations. She couldn’t afford to think of anything else. Thus, she wasn’t ashamed of what she said.

“Yes, a baby.”
“Maybe….. later….. if you….. wish to. Anyway…… y-yes.”
“Really? With me? You shouldn’t do that.”

She tilted her head.

Ian’s head snapped at her, the redness draining instantly from his face in shock.

“There’s nothing you can’t do. Rather, it’d be too close.”

The misunderstanding disappeared.

Laritte stood up, watching Ian stupefied.

She grumbled.

see me in the morning?”

was in need

to the wounds and scars all over her body, and there was a body therapy that had to

to stay separate

reason I couldn’t come to

face was tainted with

Opps!

suffocated by the storm of work. Day and night, he wrestled with papers in his hands. He even ate and slept in front of his desk.

she started walking

chased after her.

for sure….. you are the

at all. She was wondering

his hat, one of the servants ran

with the cat. You weren’t in your office, Master, so I put the cage there. Do you want me to bring it

The cat!

had hardened, lightened

“Really…….?”

she had said goodbye to at the

welcoming voice

we go see her now?”

different directions, not knowing the exact

not

after

his footsteps behind her, she thought to

person as

a good family nor a

fine even if Ian didn’t contact a mistress for an

idea, she

would agree

“It’s over here.”

stepped first into the office

felt too devastated to be the office of

and there, but the bookshelf was

it would soon be as

was too busy to search for the cat to look around the office.

“Butterfly?”

white, furry cat cried meow from inside an iron

the cage, Butterfly sprang out free before

“Meow.”

butterflies stay out of human reach.

Laritte was six feet (1.8 meters) away, she slipped like a ghost when Laritte tried to touch her.

covering her face with her hand,

her, watching her with interest.

cute she was when she did things

didn’t even know how to feel ashamed at her own

frowned in worry.

thin?” “That’s ridiculous. She

rich fur and plumpness seemed to be visible only to

eyes touched

letter bound in gold. The servant seemed to have left it behind while

had a servant’s name on it, but it was from

send letters

removed the seal.

dearest friend,

was not written, but he knew it came to the right

brief greeting was a number of stories related to

prince could do for his friend.