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.

He buried his face in his hands so as to not be caught by

it for a long time like a fool. It was time for

aroma of flowers swept past his burning head.

the faint echo of the knights

by an old

former Ducal couple lived together

mother, said that the footing of everything

because of love that you worry about your mother’s

uncomfortable when a passerby

“K-Kiss?”

you’ve never

sighed jokingly as she hugged a

last one. The Duke doesn’t really love me.”

That’s not

could clearly recall that day.

of Ian, saying it was her fault.

father always harbored a straight

of doing that? Ian thought he wouldn’t be able to do that to

he could. For at least one person.

also in

terribly intertwined love.

grabbed

confess? He wouldn’t be able to do it even if

was afraid of revealing her name to him.

taken away after

stopped the carriage and shouted

the hell are you going without your

a great spirit

he not shy in the

calmed down as he stroked his fingers

now, just him acknowledging his feelings for Laritte had been a

exchange meeting to be held in

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

with the further distribution of the harvested goods in

spread to the capital city, foreign figures

meeting in May was the second largest

attend the exchange event someday! It receives

taking a walk inside a castle in the capital with

was a young lady who arrived in the capital

center of the castle where the party was generally held, only 30 aristocrats, their companies, and foreigners were allowed to

other nobles were allowed to enjoy a separate gathering

of the grand meeting, the children continued their

at only one place. As did the officials who were in

was time for the

from a simple hello from the guests. Such as if the

with the utmost curiosity, while some

was waiting for a carriage to

the young

very obvious.

family bearing the crest of a lion. They have always been famous in society,

of the Duke of Reinhardt, who rarely appeared in public.

young girls were eager to see Laritte, who was

other nobles were curious

changed his mind after his absence

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