Chapter 17

“Would you like to wash up first?”

Laritte asked as her eyes fell on the small bathroom in one corner of the room.

“……What?”
“Are you not going to wash up? There seems to be plenty of water.”
“Ah, yes. Yes…..”

Trying to hide his agitation, he stepped towards it.

He brushed off his thoughts and returned back to the room after cleaning himself up.

Laritte was already asleep on one side of the bed.

Before he became a swordmaster, he was still skilled in swordsmanship, but he did not develop much of his physical strength.

But Laritte was different.

Ian didn’t know that Laritte began to take care of her meals only recently.

Although she didn’t use much of her energy, the journey must have been tiring.

Ian shook her carefully, but she didn’t open her eyes.

Only the sound of her breathing peacefully reached his ears.

‘Sigh.’

Eventually, he sighed, lifting her in his arms and laying her down properly.

It was strange to think about whether or not she was waiting for him.

“Don’t you think you should cover yourself with a blanket?”
“Mm-hmm.”

She made a sound in her sleep.

Ian lied down next to her gently, covering themselves with the blanket.

The bed was so narrow that it forced him to shift towards her.

The ends of her silver hair were tickling his arm.

He turned towards her.

As he stared at her, a gentle smile crept upon his face unknowingly.

He didn’t know, but such a smile was also noticed by him by his nanny when he was a child.

However, it wasn’t a moment to cherish such childhood memories.

The two had spent one long season together and came all the way here.

The highlights were in front of them now.

The word companion could not be more fitting than it was now.

Ian whispered softly in her ear.

“Hey.”
“…….”

She couldn’t open her eyes, but she tossed and turned.

Eventually, she shifted into his arms. It was something to be felt all the way.

Anyway, they were married. He wished this moment would not end in a flash.

last thing he cherishes before he

That wasn’t all.

his property, he could give Laritte many things to make her happy.

if Laritte didn’t really have any desires, he could have bought the best land on the continent and could have built a lovely home for her.

would even gift her jewelry that wasn’t even owned by the

imagination

had heard him, she would have been frightened. It surely would have reminded her of Rose all over again.

left the villa that she was nothing like him

abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate child in

the rest

believed Ian would at least give her the right to stay in that

similar to

time sweeping his fingers through her hair until she

soon followed her into

was the first woman whom he had ever been affectionate besides his

***

Laritte who opened her eyes to the chirping

her gaze sideways.

“Wake up.”

man larger than her was sleeping soundly next to

it by

eyes to the sound of her voice.

a few days left until the National Foundation Day, there were many things that needed to be

about Ian hiding

that they shared the same bed

they had

simply packed their luggage and

in the morning to get to the carriage.

finally

the National Foundation Day, the place seemed to be more lively than when they

since then, their journey became

accommodation on schedule, wearing a dress on time, and

a dress, specifically the dress that Ian had

looked down

couldn’t tell how she looked since there wasn’t a mirror. However, it was

look good on you, but it looks

like

jumped down

“Really?”

of

seen such a high-end dress. It felt so different.

“Well, then……”

something out of her luggage, noticing Ian, who couldn’t take his eyes off her.

do something first, don’t we?”

was a secret

***

an old rental wagon among those fancy horse cars, they got off the

and a servant in a robe got off, people

over his

stood at the first gate leading to the castle.

small carriage, the gatekeeper thought it was a small inquiry.

it was surprising that the woman, unexpectedly,

too expensive for an

show me

widened as he read

of

was someone far more humble than he thought.

unaware of the fact that she was a popular topic in social conversations

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