Chapter 63
It wasn’t long before Oscar started his dinner with Ian and Laritte.
Crown Prince Oscar’s elegant hands in showing his table manners to match the manners of nobility.
He washed his hands with warm water in a wooden basin and wiped his mouth with a towel.
His methods were neat.
But Oscar didn’t pay much attention to what he was doing.
Because his eyes were focused elsewhere.
“Let me check if the water temperature is appropriate.”
“It’s okay. It’s not that hot.”
“Does the towel feel uncomfortable to your hands?”
Ian’s concerned voice.
Oscar felt disturbed, so he spoke up.
“Stop, Stop it! Ian!”
The couple was sitting opposite him.
Ian, who was taking care of Laritte, blinked at Oscar as if he knew nothing.
Oscar could see how overprotective Ian was getting.
“What’s the matter?”
“You put so much effort into it. The Duchess must be annoyed!”
According to Oscar, this was nothing other than love.
‘I can’t believe how you say you don’t love her, though! Everything is so very obvious.’
Laritte responded by wiping her mouth herself.
“I know I’m lazy, but I don’t want him to do these things for me. He has been acting very weird lately.”
Oscar knew Laritte would naturally agree.
Weren’t they friends?
Of course, Oscar was an old friend of Ian.
But, Ian wasn’t such a strange person before.
It was amusing to see how the Duchess was unaware of Ian’s feelings, too.
Ian spoke up in his defense,
“Your Highness doesn’t know. It’s getting hard to say how frequently Laritte is getting into small accidents these days.”
The Crown Prince could not have known if the maids didn’t even notice such things.
In the first place, it could not be stated as a conspiracy due to which Laritte was suddenly experiencing her bad luck.
to tend to Laritte, Oscar felt like he should have eaten
know more about how they had
rate, he was uncertain if his visit would end in a few days just
was presented at the table.
was earl grey peach cupcakes.
over the earl grey sheet
spoon to taste
delicious and
wasn’t worried about
know how Laritte’s sudden bad luck would affect
head at Ian’s behavior before he moved
Laritte began to eat
perfect. But after a while, her throat felt
asked as Laritte
have some water.”
“That’s
down
was stinging deep in
it felt swollen
“Cough! Cough!”
desperately started scrounging for air to breathe. Her pale skin turned paler if that was possible.
chair
“Laritte?”
“Ian, I……”
got up, staggering
but leaned against Ian’s arms as if she was
it because of the food?”
to think
had been a long time since he was in a war zone.
dying in front of his
everything felt
Why?
“Laritte, Laritte!”
slightly trembling hands supported
room was calm. Oscar
cook
turned to
she allergic to peaches?”
problem eating the
there was only one possibility. It
peach cupcake on
might be possible that she suddenly developed
in time, the chef
some!”
“Boil it and prepare the juice so that it’s
helped Ian to
Ian muttered,
Why do these keep happening only to Laritte?”
heart was pounding against
was
this time, he
Oscar soothed Ian,
Duchess hasn’t lost consciousness. It’s just hard for her to breathe.
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