The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 325

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Side Story 3. So the Two of Them (3)

“…It seems too much just for my thoughts.”

Somehow my face felt hot.

I deliberately avoided Kaiden’s gaze and looked around the garden.

“This seems like too extravagant a place.”

“What kind of disappointing thing to say.”

Kaiden smiled crookedly as if asking what I was talking about.

“You still have a tendency to underestimate yourself.”

Normally I would have retorted something, but somehow the words wouldn’t come out well.

I stared blankly at the jasmine flower bed and opened my mouth.

“…I didn’t know I had a jasmine scent.”

It was just soap fragrance used to erase the smell of blood.

Though the soap contained jasmine, it wasn’t perfume so there was hardly any lingering scent.

I wouldn’t have used it in the first place if the fragrance had been strong.

“Is that so.”

Kaiden listened to my words and raised his head.

He too looked at the waves of jasmine flowers swaying in the wind as he answered.

“From the day you saved me until the day you left me in the barbarian village, I never once forgot your scent.”

The fear of assassins chasing to kill him and the terror of darkness where nothing could be seen.

All young Kaiden had to rely on in that situation was the body warmth of the strange assassin who had saved him.

“When I slept clinging close to you every night, I could smell your fragrance.”

The subtle scent that penetrated his nose.

Just smelling that fragrance allowed him to escape from the smell of blood and nightmares.

“And in the end, your scent was the only thing left for me.”

He couldn’t have anything.

The assassin left the boy behind, and the boy had no ability to find the assassin.

The only things that remained were the brief days spent with the assassin and the subtle jasmine fragrance that had melted into her body warmth.

“I kept thinking about that scent, so I came to know what it was. It’s not because my sense of smell is better than others.”

Kaiden paused for a moment.

Then he turned to look at me with his hands clasped behind his back.

“But have you never once thought of me all this time?”

“Pardon?”

“Not me as I am now, but that boy you saved.”

I’d be in big trouble if I answered this wrong.

I looked at Kaiden’s earnest expression and moved my lips.

“Well…”

“Don’t tell me you really completely forgot and lived your life? You never recalled it even once?”

Disappointment began to creep across his overly handsome face.

I fidgeted with my fingertips and impulsively opened my mouth.

“…There was exactly one time.”

“One time?”

Kaiden looked clearly disappointed by my answer.

At the same time, he seemed very curious about when and in what situation that one time was.

“…About two years after I brought Your Highness, I mean that boy, to the barbarian village, I went to that village again.”

“What?”

Kaiden’s eyes became as big as pine cones.

He stared down at me blankly with his mouth half open, as if he had never dreamed of this.

“But I never saw you…”

“That’s because I only watched while hiding.”

It was a kind of bad habit.

Checking if people I had been involved with were doing well, then erasing them from my memory.

“I just wanted to confirm that the boy was doing well.”

“Why?”

“You already know the reason.”

Back then, I hadn’t asked Kaiden’s name.

I had even knocked him unconscious on purpose and left without saying goodbye.

“Ordinary people have nothing good to gain from being involved with an assassin.”

Kaiden’s face became serious.

That expression looked exactly like that boy who used to cling to me.

I burst into light laughter and added a comment.

“Well, back then I thought that boy was an ordinary person.”

“…This is absurd.”

Kaiden looked at my laughter and raised one eyebrow.

Then he soon burst into hearty laughter along with me.

“Right, what’s the point of digging up old matters.”

His large hand suddenly enveloped mine.

“Let’s just take a walk.”

Weren’t we already taking a walk?

I walked through the center of the Jasmine Garden holding hands with Kaiden.

The harmony of flowers in full bloom and magic stones emitting a subtle blue light between them seemed like something I could watch all day without getting bored.

“Prince Kaiden.”

“When we’re alone, just call me Kaiden. And speak comfortably too.”

“That’s…”

“You’re the queen now too.”

I hesitated for a moment then opened my mouth again.

“Kaiden.”

“Yeah.”

“I might not be able to have children.”

This might not be the right topic to bring up in this peaceful moment.

But it was something I had decided I must tell Kaiden before the wedding ceremony.

“I’ve been taking contraceptive medicine for a long time, and the physician said I was born with a body that has difficulty conceiving.”

The real Rachel’s body looked fine but wasn’t very healthy either.

Rather, it had become healthier because I took over the body and diligently trained.

“Actually, I never thought about having children until now.”

Even long ago when I thought about becoming family with Ian, I didn’t particularly think about children.

Even then, I thought I couldn’t have children with a body exposed to all kinds of drugs and magic.

“But now that I’ve become queen, I can’t help but think about that problem.”

Suddenly, Kaiden’s hand holding mine flinched.

“I’ll work on that problem from now on. They say constitution can be changed with divine magic or medicine.”

But the problem was if I couldn’t find an answer even with effort.

I gripped Kaiden’s hand tighter and looked straight at him.

“If I can’t bear children, then at that time…”

“You.”

Kaiden cut off my words.

He looked somewhat angry.

“Always try to look too far ahead.”

“It’s not looking far ahead, it’s natural worry…”

“You once said you wouldn’t mind becoming a mistress, and now you’re going to tell me to take a mistress if you can’t bear children?”

“I…”

I was about to protest when Kaiden suddenly pinched both my cheeks.

“K-Kaiden?”

I stammered, flustered by his attitude that seemed like he was teasing a child.

“I have absolutely no desire to have children for the sake of an heir. I don’t think only my bloodline must inherit the throne either.”

A successor just needed to be someone with the right qualifications and abilities.

Kaiden casually spoke words that would make other nobles and retainers faint if they heard them.

“I told you. I became king to be with you.”

Becoming lovers, becoming husband and wife, having children and building a family.

“None of it has meaning without you.”

Kaiden pinched my cheek until it hurt, then released his grip.

He gently caressed my flushed red cheek with both hands.

“If you say something like that again, know that it won’t end this easily next time.”

“Kaiden…”

“Or do you really want me to embrace another woman…”

“You promised.”

This time I cut off Kaiden’s words.

I wrapped my arms around his waist and lifted my head to look up at him.

“If you try to take it back later saying you need a child, I won’t stay quiet either. Kaiden Ram.”

“Good.”

Kaiden looked at the murderous intent and jealousy filling my eyes and smiled with satisfaction.

“Now you finally look like a bride.”

The pure white Jasmine Garden.

We held each other and gazed into each other’s eyes.

Promising to see only each other through all the time that had passed and all the time yet to come.

* * *

Adamant Royal Palace was unusually bustling.

It was understandable since this was the day of the founding king’s royal wedding celebration.

“Brother, hurry!”

A girl in a pink dress grabbed her skirt hem and stamped her feet impatiently.

“Hurry up and come!”

“Emilia, you don’t need to rush like that.”

“But! But!”

Princess Emilia of the Bentrum Empire waved the large bouquet in her other hand.

“Ria has to meet Rachel first!”

First Princess Emilia, who came with the Bentrum Empire’s delegation, seemed anxious after arriving later than scheduled.

“Rachel said she can’t have the wedding without Ria!”

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