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.

would be the last thing he cherishes before he got back his

That wasn’t all.

he could give Laritte many things

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

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

imagination

had heard him, she would have been frightened. It surely would

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 in the world had to suffer through.

to live in the villa alone for the

least give her the right to stay in that villa.

something similar

thoughts, Ian spent his time sweeping his fingers through

kissed her forehead and soon followed her into a

whom he had ever been affectionate besides

***

her eyes to

turned her gaze

“Wake up.”

was sleeping soundly next

she expected it by the size of the

to the

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

hiding his identity.

impression that they shared the same

had to hurry.

simply packed their luggage and prepared to move

went outside early in the morning to get to

another day, they finally arrived in the province.

before the National Foundation Day, the place seemed to be more lively than

since then, their journey

dress on time, and making other

a dress, specifically the dress that Ian had given her.

looked down at

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

expected it’d look good on you, but

looks like a Goddess.’

jumped down the

“Really?”

hem of her

seen such a high-end dress. It

“Well, then……”

out of her luggage, noticing Ian, who couldn’t

something

was a secret

***

in an old rental wagon among those fancy horse cars, they got off the carriage.

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

over his

gatekeeper stood at the first gate leading to the castle.

carriage, the gatekeeper

surprising that the woman, unexpectedly, had an

expensive

please show

eyes widened as he read the

of

more humble than

in social conversations as the

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