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 got back his

That wasn’t all.

the Duke gained back his property, he could

have bought the best land on the continent and could have built a lovely

would even gift her jewelry that wasn’t even owned

imagination

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

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

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

least give her

similar to it.

his fingers

kissed her forehead and soon followed her into

whom he had ever been affectionate besides his

***

eyes to the chirping

her gaze sideways.

“Wake up.”

man larger than her was sleeping soundly next

she expected it by

quickly opened his eyes to the sound

the National Foundation Day, there were many

hiding his identity.

that they shared the same bed

they had to

of them simply packed their luggage and

the morning to get

another day, they finally arrived

was just before the National Foundation Day, the place seemed

since then, their journey became nothing eventful.

accommodation on schedule, wearing a dress on time, and making other

into a dress, specifically the dress that Ian had

down

she couldn’t tell how she looked since there wasn’t

it’d look good on you,

like a Goddess.’

down

“Really?”

patched the hem of her neck awkwardly.

such a high-end dress. It

“Well, then……”

her luggage, noticing Ian, who

something first, don’t we?”

a secret weapon.

***

an old rental wagon among those fancy horse

soon as a gorgeous woman and a servant in a robe got off, people cast their

pulling over his hood

at the first gate leading to the castle.

the gatekeeper thought

surprising that the woman,

expensive for an outsider?’

show me your

eyes widened as he read the letter.

Duchess of

more humble than he

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