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 will, then it would be the last thing

That wasn’t all.

he could give

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

jewelry that wasn’t

happy imagination

have been frightened. It surely would have

accepted from the time she left the villa that she was nothing like him and that

and greed that every

to live in the villa alone for the rest of her life, just like her

believed Ian would at least give her the right to stay

similar to

her thoughts, Ian spent his time sweeping his

followed her into a deep

was the first woman whom he had ever been affectionate

***

her eyes

her gaze

“Wake up.”

man larger than her was sleeping soundly next

it

eyes to

days left until the National Foundation Day, there were many things that needed

Ian hiding

first impression that they shared the same bed was

had

their luggage and prepared

early in the morning to get to the carriage.

day, they finally arrived in the province.

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

then, their journey became nothing eventful.

wearing a dress

a dress, specifically the dress

down

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

good on you,

like a Goddess.’

down

“Really?”

hem of her

a high-end dress.

“Well, then……”

her luggage, noticing Ian,

to do something first,

a secret weapon.

***

among those fancy horse cars,

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

nervous, pulling over his

gatekeeper stood at the first gate leading to the

small carriage, the gatekeeper thought it

woman,

dress too expensive for an outsider?’

please show me your invitation?”

widened as he read the letter.

of

far more humble than he

a popular topic in social conversations as the illegitimate child, who became

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