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
sound from inside of the villa and
all right!
a wooden board,
his foot loudly before
a hand
together, okay?”
“Ah.”
after giving
you don’t have to buy a dress.”
“Pardon?”
probably still
up to the second
untreated, covered with dust and cobwebs.
Ian went ahead and cleared
you looking for?”
attic. It doesn’t smell good there, so please
her
you want to go
like any other house. The farther they went, the more the roof became slanted.
the ceiling of the second floor.
kept following
when he noticed that Laritte was still following
before putting it in a gap in the ordinary
want to destroy the
didn’t have a
made Ian recall about
was a kid, a servant always used to open it for him. It was the first
climb up using the fallen rope ladder as a
it wasn’t
to get a dusty box
it
my mother’s
not just ordinary clothes, but
was obtained from a Dragon’s
also had a beautiful neckline.
highly elastic. It seemed as if it would
be one of the beautiful dresses made out of
it to Selena as a proposal for the marriage. It was
though this dress reminded her of many precious memories. That’s
here with the former Duchess,
Ian nodded.
opening the box, Laritte found a pure white dress.
hem of the dress flowed downwards as she took it out. It was composed of simple yet luxurious
‘Beautiful.’
Ian added to break the awkwardness he felt.
look like it, but it belonged to my late mother, and it was made many decades ago,
I’ll have to go down
his
I like it.”
that trend come
from what Rose used to wear
anything so beautiful in her
Ian stop
“…Is that so?”
dress suited her
silver shoes as if they were made
was as though it was only made for
she would have been very delighted to see that the dress she treasured so much
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