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.

didn’t you see me in the morning?” “Having separate rooms was the physician’s suggestion!”

was in need of

her body, and there was a body therapy that had

easy for them to

the reason I couldn’t come

face was tainted

Opps!

busy getting 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. All he did to

she started walking towards the

chased after her.

my fault. But one thing is for sure….. you are

all. She was wondering how Ian could trust her.

his hat, one of the servants

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

The cat!

lightened

“Really…….?”

she had said goodbye to at the villa,

warm welcoming voice erupted from her.

go see

different directions, not knowing the

that’s not the way.”

hurried after her.

footsteps behind her, she thought to herself.

good person as

good family nor a

fine even if Ian didn’t contact a mistress for an heir since there would be no one to oppose their

peaceful idea, she thought.

unclear whether Ian would agree with such a relationship or not.

“It’s over here.”

into the office as the

be

scattered here and

it would soon be

too busy to search for the cat to look around

“Butterfly?”

cried meow

sprang

“Meow.”

how butterflies stay

slipped like a ghost when Laritte tried to touch her.

face

watching her with interest.

cute she was when she

even know how to feel ashamed at her own strange

eyebrows frowned in worry.

gotten a little thin?” “That’s ridiculous. She

fur and plumpness seemed to be

eyes touched the

seemed to have left it

sender had a servant’s name on it, but it was from Oscar, the crown prince of the

to send letters to avoid

carefully removed the

To my dearest friend,

not written, but he knew it came to the

a number of

the powerless prince could do for his friend.