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

That wasn’t all.

his property, he could give Laritte many things to make

any desires, he could have bought the best land on the continent and could have built a lovely

wasn’t even owned by the Imperial family…..

imagination ensued.

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

had already accepted from the time she left the villa that she

judgment was due to the concessions, abandonment, and greed that

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

at least give her the right to stay in that villa.

something similar to

Ian spent his time sweeping his

followed her into

was the first woman whom he had

***

who opened her eyes to the chirping of the birds.

her gaze sideways.

“Wake up.”

her was sleeping soundly next to her.

surprised as she expected it by

opened his eyes to the sound of

left until the National Foundation Day, there were many things that needed to be prepared in advance.

hiding

first impression that they shared the same bed was a

they had to hurry.

their luggage and prepared to move out.

outside early in the morning

day, they finally arrived in

Day, the place seemed to be

their journey became nothing eventful.

dress

into a dress, specifically the

looked down at herself.

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

it’d look good on you, but it looks

like

down

“Really?”

patched the hem of her neck awkwardly.

had never seen such a high-end dress.

“Well, then……”

her luggage, noticing Ian, who

something first, don’t we?”

was a secret weapon.

***

among those

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

over his hood more

at the first gate leading to the castle.

small carriage, the gatekeeper thought it was a small inquiry.

that the woman, unexpectedly,

dress too expensive for

show

eyes widened as he

of

far more

the fact that she was a popular topic in social conversations as the illegitimate

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