Chapter 74: Chapter 74

“Woah… It’s just so beautiful.”

“Right? It’s the advantage of this place—its beauty isn’t lost at all.”

Vivian’s shoulder instantly stiffened as the sudden voice from her side. She quickly turned her head, only to discover a face which she didn’t really wish to see at that moment. Thus, making her face hardened as well.

“You’re coming along as well?”

“That quite hurts. I’ve been by your side all along the way here.”

He raised his glasses with a somewhat disappointed look painted on his face.

“How can I not follow you as I am the Grand Duke’s chief physician. I need to be on standby—just in case anything were to happen suddenly.”

“Didn’t you say that his condition is getting—more or less—better now?”

“But still, isn’t sickness something like you could never know what would happen in an instant? Of course, I don’t mean that the Grand Duke will be like that all of a sudden.”

The physician then lifted his own luggage that was amidst the many piles of bags.

“Ah, but please don’t worry. I’ll be staying in a separate house, so I won’t take a single step into the main building unless I am called.”

“Of course, as you should.”

“Knox.”

As soon as she saw him approaching her, a smile began to bloom on Vivian’s face. He too, smiled softly at Vivian before he appeared puzzled as he glanced at her hand.

“Why are you carrying your own luggage?”

Oops! She immediately tried making excuses when she noticed that her body had brought the luggage without even realizing it.

“Ah, I just think that I needed to take care of my own stuff.”

“There is no need for you to do that. You can just command the others to do it instead.”

Knox immediately took the luggage away from her hand. Then, he handed it over to his servant before taking her hand that had just been left vacant.

The mansion which she had entered together with him was completely quiet.

Just like it was trying to prove how human beings had never been there for a long time, the surroundings were entirely enveloped in silence. If it wasn’t for the touch of those who were in charge of cleaning the house, it might have been shrouded with a lot of dust over here.

They passed by several rooms before reaching a particular bedroom. It was a place where the warm sunlight could enter even better than the other rooms.

“This is the room which my parents had used when I was small—the one that mother had occupied when she was still alive. It was also the space which had been used by all the Grand Duchesses from generation to generation.”

Knox then shared his gaze with Vivian’s.

“I hope that you will settle in this room.”

“Even so, such a meaningful room is just too much for me.”

Vivian immediately shook her head. There was no way that she—who wasn’t even the Young Countess—could avail herself recklessly to that room.

“Then, who would actually use this room if not you? My fiancée is none other than you.”

“Well, that is right. But… I’m just your fiancée, still.”

“You’d like me to change the way I address you, then?”

Knox straight away strode towards her.

Vivian, who was trying to avoid his body by taking a step backwards, was immediately caught up with the bed before stumbling right into it—instantly seated already. As soon as the fluffy bed had brushed against her bottom, she quickly glanced towards Knox with fluster in her eyes.

“Would you like me to call you the Grand Duchess right now?”

“That’s not what I meant. What I’m saying is that it still wouldn’t be too late for me to use this room even after we’ve gotten married later.”

“I don’t want to marry anyone—just you.”

Vivina’s eyes immediately widened at Knox’s words. Even though she was aware that those words were directed towards ‘Alexia’ and not ‘Vivian’, she just couldn’t reject those words that  were still buzzing in her ears.

“You’re the only whom I’ll marry. There’s absolutely no one else.”

Ah. How good would it be if I were to be the real Young Countess.

Vivian reached out her hand, barely managed to hold back the tears that were on the verge of flowing down on her face. As she began to hug his neck firmly, Vivian gave him a  slight nod as well.

“…hold me.”

Accompanied by Vivian’s words, he then carefully laid her on the bed. The freshly washed scent with a little drop of sunshine had tickled the tip of Vivian’s nose.

His lips had begun to slide downwards from her forehead straight to her lips before sucking on them. His tongue that pierced inside her mouth after knocking briefly upon her teeth, had licked all over her insides.

His hands then started to take her clothes off in earnest. The moment he reached her back in order to unbutton her, Vivian raised her hips in response—for him to be able to undress her much more easily.