Chapter 15
He knew how much Laritte loved this old villa.
The first floor was always free of dust (The second floor had been abandoned.) The walls were clean too.
Before he came to this house, she had also bought a seedling and raised it well.
Little flowers used to bloom every day on the table where she usually took her meals.
Laritte told him.
But each and every one of them was a lie!
“No, it can’t be like this. I should be the one to do it.”
Ian turned around, clutching the invitation.
Laritte tried to snatch it from behind.
“If you go alone and fail……”
“…..?”
“I can confess to the government that I was the one who invited you.”
She was really stubborn.
He frowned and glanced back at her.
Her face was still calm.
“Or you’ll be executed.”
“I wouldn’t be.”
“Really?”
‘How can you be so sure?’
When she asked again, he hesitated.
She was the last person to know about his whereabouts.
‘What if he actually fails?’
Looking at her calm expression, he felt shivers running down his spine.
Laritte knew Ian as much as he knew her.
In the end, he had no choice but to surrender to her.
Ian strode towards the door leaving her behind. He deliberately raised his voice so that he could be heard clearly.
“All right, if we’re going to attend the banquet, we have to wear formal clothes. How much does a ginseng dress cost? But before that, I’m going to have to sell some wood.”
“…..”
“Of course, you don’t have to help me. It must be hard to cut those items.”
‘I can see you’re already struggling.’
When he didn’t get any response from Laritte, he sighed before he went to search for the ax.
Ian was still standing in front of the porch.
agonizing for
heard a rumbling sound from inside of the villa
all right! You!”
a wooden board, opened her eyes abruptly.
loudly before walking towards the source.
a hand towards her.
together,
“Ah.”
Ian’s help after giving
don’t have to buy
“Pardon?”
still there…..”
followed Ian up to the
covered with dust and
went ahead
are you looking for?”
attic. It doesn’t smell good there,
her eyes.
to go to the attic
like any other house. The farther
was no attic on the ceiling of the
following
when he noticed that Laritte was
before putting it
to destroy the house, do you?’
didn’t have a gap, rattled
Ian recall about his old days.
kid, a servant always used to open it for him. It was the first time he got the
tried to climb up using the fallen
expected, it wasn’t
to get a dusty box from
it for?”
my mother’s clothes.”
not just ordinary clothes, but the favorite dress of Selena Reinhardt.
from
a beautiful neckline.
It seemed as if it would
dresses made out of
deceased Duke had gifted it to Selena as a proposal for the marriage. It was
though this dress reminded her of many precious memories. That’s why she brought
with the former Duchess, didn’t you?”
Ian nodded.
opening the box, Laritte found a pure white dress.
she took it out. It was composed of simple yet luxurious
‘Beautiful.’
she was still staring at the dress, Ian added to break the
late mother, and it was made many decades ago, so it might not
like it, I’ll have to go down and cut the extra furniture of the villa.”
his surprise…
like it.”
come back
design itself didn’t feel so different from
seen anything so beautiful in her
Ian stop
“…Is that so?”
dress suited her very well.
goes well with fancy silver shoes as
him to say that it was as though it was only made for Laritte to
very delighted to see that the dress she
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