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.

then it would be the last thing he cherishes before he

That wasn’t all.

property, he could give Laritte many things to

if Laritte didn’t really have any desires, he could have bought the best land on the continent and could have built

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

imagination

have been frightened. It surely

the time she left the villa that she was nothing like him

the concessions, abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate child in

the villa alone for the rest of her life, just like her father had planned.

at least give her the right to stay in

something similar

thoughts, Ian spent his time sweeping his fingers through her hair

forehead and soon followed her into a

whom he had ever

***

eyes to the chirping

turned her

“Wake up.”

larger than her was sleeping soundly next to

it by the size of the

opened his eyes to the

left until the National Foundation Day, there were many things

hiding

shared the same bed was

had to

luggage and

early in the morning

day, they finally arrived in the province.

it was just before the National Foundation Day, the place seemed to be more lively than when they

their journey

a dress on time, and

a dress, specifically the dress

looked down at

looked since there wasn’t a mirror. However, it

good on you, but

like

jumped down the horse.

“Really?”

of

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

“Well, then……”

Ian, who couldn’t

to do something first,

was a secret weapon.

***

in an old rental wagon among those fancy horse

woman and a servant in a

became nervous, pulling over his hood more closely.

first gate leading to the castle.

the gatekeeper

woman,

that dress too expensive for

show

widened as he read the letter.

of

more humble

social conversations as the illegitimate child, who became

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