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.

it would be the last thing he cherishes before he got

That wasn’t all.

Duke gained back 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

that wasn’t even owned by the

happy imagination

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

she was nothing like him and that their relationship

abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate child in the world

villa alone for the rest of her life,

least give her

something similar to

thoughts, Ian spent his time sweeping his fingers through her hair until she fell

and soon followed her into a deep

had ever

***

Laritte who opened her eyes to the

turned her gaze

“Wake up.”

larger than her was

it by the size of

to the sound of

until the National Foundation Day, there were many things

about Ian hiding

that they shared the same bed

had to

packed their luggage and prepared to move out.

outside early in the morning to get to the carriage.

another day, they finally

place seemed to be

journey became nothing eventful.

the accommodation on schedule, wearing a dress

into a dress, specifically the dress

looked down at

wasn’t a mirror. However,

look good on you, but

looks like

down the horse.

“Really?”

hem of her neck awkwardly.

never seen such a high-end dress. It felt so different.

“Well, then……”

took something out of her luggage, noticing Ian, who

something first, don’t

a secret weapon.

***

arriving in an old rental wagon among those fancy horse cars,

and a servant in a robe got off, people cast their

over

stood at the first gate

gatekeeper thought it was a small inquiry.

it was surprising that the woman, unexpectedly, had an outstanding

dress too expensive for an outsider?’

show me your

he read the

Duchess of Reinhardt?’

someone far more humble than he

social conversations as the illegitimate

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