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.

thing he cherishes

That wasn’t all.

he could give Laritte many

the best land on

her jewelry that wasn’t even owned by the Imperial family…..

happy imagination ensued.

have been frightened. It surely would have reminded her of

accepted from the time she left the villa that she was nothing like him and that their relationship would be

due to the concessions, abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate child

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

Ian would at least give her the

similar

thoughts, Ian spent his time sweeping his fingers through

and soon followed

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

***

eyes to the chirping

turned her gaze sideways.

“Wake up.”

her was sleeping soundly next to her.

she expected it by the size

his eyes to the sound of her

were still a few days left until the National Foundation Day, there

Ian hiding his

they shared the same bed was a

had

of them simply packed their luggage and

morning to get to

another day, they finally arrived in the province.

just before the National Foundation Day, the place seemed

journey became nothing

the accommodation on schedule, wearing a dress

the dress that

down at herself.

looked since there wasn’t a mirror. However, it was replaced by Ian’s horse.

it’d look good on you, but it looks great.”

like a Goddess.’

down

“Really?”

patched the hem of her

seen such a high-end dress. It

“Well, then……”

luggage, noticing Ian, who couldn’t take his eyes off

do something first,

a secret

***

those fancy horse cars, they got off the carriage.

a servant in a robe

nervous, pulling over his hood

stood at the first gate leading to the castle.

noticing the small carriage, the gatekeeper thought it was a

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

dress too expensive for an outsider?’

please show

widened as he read

Duchess of Reinhardt?’

far more humble than

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

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