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 a long time….
he heard a rumbling sound from inside of
all right!
a wooden board, opened her
loudly before
reached a hand towards
together,
“Ah.”
up with Ian’s help after giving out a
you don’t have to
“Pardon?”
still there…..”
to the second
still remained untreated, covered with dust and cobwebs.
went ahead
are you
attic. It doesn’t smell good there, so please wait downstairs.”
rolled her
to go to the attic
shaped like any other house. The farther they went, the more the roof became slanted.
attic on the ceiling of the
following him curiously.
noticed that
a suitable block before putting it in a gap in the ordinary
don’t want to destroy the house, do you?’
didn’t have a
made Ian recall about his old
open it for him. It was the first time he got the chance to do it himself.
tried to climb up using the fallen rope ladder as a
expected, it wasn’t
a dusty box from the second
is it for?”
my mother’s
but
from
a beautiful
highly elastic. It seemed as if it would
dresses made out of a
Selena as a proposal for the marriage. It was her priceless possession.
mother used to love it. It seems as though this dress reminded
live here with the former Duchess, didn’t you?”
Ian nodded.
box, Laritte found
as she took it
‘Beautiful.’
staring at the dress, Ian added to break the awkwardness
it was made many decades ago, so it
say, “If you don’t like it, I’ll have to go
his surprise…
I like
trend come
so different from
seen anything so beautiful in her
then did Ian
“…Is that so?”
thought the dress suited her very well.
that goes well with fancy silver shoes as if
him to say that it was as though it was only made for Laritte to
this, she would have been very delighted to see
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