Chapter 67

Oscar hugged him before Ian could understand what he said and entered his carriage.

“You may proceed!” He pleasantly spoke to the coachman and his escort.

Laritte waved her hand at the leaving carriage as it disappeared beyond the path between the fields.

She stared blankly at the field where she could see butterflies fluttering their wings before she turned to Ian.

He was standing so still, she wondered what the Crown Prince told him before he left.

Laritte was so quiet that he couldn’t hear her approach.

“What did His Highness say? A secret between friends?” She looked up at him.

The answer took a long while to come back.

“…..Yes, it’s a…. secret,” he was staring over the horizon as well.

Laritte shrugged when his eyes fluttered strangely.

“If you don’t want to say it, don’t. I also have friends.”

Only then did Ian, who had frozen like a stone statue, look at Laritte. Jealousy started raging inside him again because of what she said.

He tried his best to press down his jealousy and ask, “Who’s your friend?”

“Hmm, Sir Mason? Lady Redra? And Bertrand……”

“……Oh, yeah.”

Laritte found it strange that Ian took a beat to understand.

But soon, she shrugged it off and went back to the mansion, “hurry up.”

“I’ll follow you soon.”

Yet he found it difficult to catch up with Laritte.

His ears were bright red.

“You indeed like her, so don’t whine anymore and confess your feelings to your wife,” he kept recalling Oscar’s words again and again.

Since he really likes her……

Stop!

Ian screamed to himself.

If his skin was fair like Laritte’s, he would’ve been in trouble trying to hide his condition from her.

All of a sudden, his thoughts went somewhere else.

Indeed, Laritte looked beautiful because of her snowy skin.

‘No. It’s not the time to think about this.’

But he could not get control of his thoughts.

He kept remembering various aspects of his wife the longer he kept pruning.

The heat gradually reached his head, and now his neck was flushed red.

on the ground. He buried his face in his hands so

feelings. He dragged it for a long time

swept past his

the distance, he could hear the faint echo of the knights

was taken by an old

worse, when the former Ducal couple lived

Reinhardt, his mother, said that the footing of everything was love.

because of love, and it’s because of love that you worry about your mother’s illness.

a passerby stroked his chin.

“K-Kiss?”

never done it, honey?”

she hugged

one. The Duke doesn’t really

not

recall that

of Ian, saying it

father always harbored a straight

Father capable of doing that? Ian thought he wouldn’t be able

now, he could. For at

also in

terribly intertwined love.

grabbed

wouldn’t be able to do it even if

Laritte was afraid of revealing her name

her from being taken away after she

the carriage and shouted proudly to

hell are you

a great spirit

shy in the past?

calmed down as he stroked his fingers through his black hair.

for Laritte had been

be held in May was arriving

***
The Exchange Ceremony was a 10-day event that only invited the higher 30 aristocrats from the Empire of Iassa.

harvested goods in the

spread to the capital city, foreign

May

attend the exchange event someday! It receives special guests.”

inside a castle in the

arrived in the capital before

the castle where the party was generally held, only 30 aristocrats, their

enjoy a separate gathering in a hall near the

the children continued their stroll around the

As did the officials who

the

know a lot from a simple hello from the guests. Such as if the person is

peered outside their wagons with the utmost curiosity, while some

waiting for a carriage to

they?” the young

very

of a lion. They have always been famous in society,

of the Duke of Reinhardt,

to see Laritte, who was known to be very beautiful.

nobles were curious

absence in the exchange for three years

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