To You Whom I Don’t Love That Much (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 050

50.

“If we don’t depart now, we’ll be late. Is all the luggage loaded?”

This was a line that hadn’t appeared in the previous two hours of dialogue. Finally! Ro exchanged hopeful glances with a few loyal maids standing behind the Duchess. Yet the very moment Ro nodded and reached for the travel bag, the Duchess betrayed their expectations outright.

“I can’t forget the moment I first held your tiny hand…….”

“…….”

Since “your tiny hand” had come up, the rest would surely follow in sequence—details about the scar on her left knee around age five, the story of falling from a tree…… It would easily take another thirty minutes. At this point, Ro could probably recite Lea’s entire childhood history by heart.

She let out a deep sigh and gave the Duchess’s shoulder a perfunctory pat. Had she followed her true nature, she might have thrown everything aside and grabbed a horse herself……. But even someone as reckless as her found it hard to be blunt with her mother. A mother—something she had never experienced before—was somewhat bothersome, yet warm and sticky, like laundry left out in the summer sun.

“Your Grace.”

Cardier gently took hold of the Duchess’s shoulders, gently pulling her away from his wife. Though the gesture was slightly improper by etiquette, his expression was so respectful that the recipient could only awkwardly retreat.

“Once Lea settles into Montrosa Castle, I will surely send a carriage for you. The summer and autumn here are lovely—it would be good for you to come and spend a season.”

“……Are you sure that would be alright?”

Now her manner had grown noticeably more relaxed, as if speaking to a son-in-law.

“Yes. Though it’s a modest town among the suburbs, it lacks nothing for comfortable living.”

Modest town? Syklid, where Montrosa Castle stood, was a city housing the largest port in the east—equal to the capital in every way. To describe such a massive place as a humble village was one thing, but—

“How will this child manage in such a remote place…….”

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