Chapter 15
He knew how much Laritte loved this old villa.
The first floor was always free of dust (The second floor had been abandoned.) The walls were clean too.
Before he came to this house, she had also bought a seedling and raised it well.
Little flowers used to bloom every day on the table where she usually took her meals.
Laritte told him.
But each and every one of them was a lie!
“No, it can’t be like this. I should be the one to do it.”
Ian turned around, clutching the invitation.
Laritte tried to snatch it from behind.
“If you go alone and fail……”
“…..?”
“I can confess to the government that I was the one who invited you.”
She was really stubborn.
He frowned and glanced back at her.
Her face was still calm.
“Or you’ll be executed.”
“I wouldn’t be.”
“Really?”
‘How can you be so sure?’
When she asked again, he hesitated.
She was the last person to know about his whereabouts.
‘What if he actually fails?’
Looking at her calm expression, he felt shivers running down his spine.
Laritte knew Ian as much as he knew her.
In the end, he had no choice but to surrender to her.
Ian strode towards the door leaving her behind. He deliberately raised his voice so that he could be heard clearly.
“All right, if we’re going to attend the banquet, we have to wear formal clothes. How much does a ginseng dress cost? But before that, I’m going to have to sell some wood.”
“…..”
“Of course, you don’t have to help me. It must be hard to cut those items.”
‘I can see you’re already struggling.’
When he didn’t get any response from Laritte, he sighed before he went to search for the ax.
Ian was still standing in front of the porch.
was agonizing for
rumbling sound from inside of the villa and
all right! You!”
on a wooden board, opened
his foot loudly before walking towards the source.
a hand towards her.
together, okay?”
“Ah.”
stood up with Ian’s help after giving out a
to buy a
“Pardon?”
still
up to
still remained untreated, covered with
went ahead and cleared the cobwebs.
are you looking for?”
It doesn’t smell good there, so please wait downstairs.”
her
go to the attic now?’
shaped like any other house. The farther
no attic on the ceiling
following him
he noticed that Laritte
a suitable block before putting it in a gap in the
destroy the
didn’t have
made Ian recall about his old
he was a kid, a servant always used to open it for him. It was the
the
expected, it wasn’t that
get a dusty box from the
is it
contains my
just ordinary clothes, but
obtained from a Dragon’s
also had a beautiful
fibers that were highly elastic. It
considered to be one of the beautiful dresses made out
deceased Duke had gifted it to Selena as a proposal for the marriage. It was her priceless possession.
used to love it. It seems as though this dress reminded her of many precious memories. That’s
with the former Duchess, didn’t you?”
Ian nodded.
box, Laritte found a pure white
flowed downwards as she took it
‘Beautiful.’
the dress, Ian added to break the awkwardness he felt.
belonged to my late mother, and it was made many decades ago, so
I’ll have to go down and cut the extra furniture of the
his surprise…
I like it.”
come
didn’t feel so different from what Rose used to wear
seen anything
Ian stop making excuses.
“…Is that so?”
the dress suited her very
white dress that goes well with fancy silver shoes as if they
exaggeration for him to say that it was
very delighted to see that the dress she treasured so much was given to Ian’s
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