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

That wasn’t all.

the Duke gained back his property, he could give

he could have bought the best land on

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

imagination ensued.

she would have been frightened. It surely would

that she was nothing like him and

to the concessions, abandonment, and greed that every illegitimate child in the world had to

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

Ian would at least give her

similar to

his time sweeping his

followed her into a deep slumber.

he had ever been affectionate besides his mother.

***

Laritte who opened her eyes to the chirping of

she turned her

“Wake up.”

was sleeping soundly next

it by the

quickly opened his eyes to the sound

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

hiding his

that they shared the same bed was

they had

packed their luggage and prepared to

outside early in the morning to get to the

they finally arrived in

the place seemed to be more

then, their journey became nothing eventful.

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

dress, specifically the dress that

down at

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

look good on you,

like

jumped down the

“Really?”

of her

such a high-end dress. It felt so different.

“Well, then……”

out of her luggage, noticing Ian, who

do something first, don’t we?”

a

***

wagon among those fancy horse cars, they got off the

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

pulling over his hood more closely.

stood at the first gate leading to the castle.

gatekeeper thought it

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

too expensive for an outsider?’

show me your invitation?”

eyes widened as he read

of

far more humble than he

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

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