“You’re good. It feels nice.”

As Rieta admired, Noel gave a small snort.

“It’s because of somebody nagging me and instructing me. Why did you inform me this . . . how annoying.”

He continued to brush her hair very rigorously, regardless of saying it was annoying.

After that, he introduced just a little hairpin.

“Elevate your head.”

“Why?”

“Aren’t you washing your face?”

He gathered Rieta bangs one after the other and pinned them over her brow.

Noel stared at him for a second and smiled, as if the fullness of her face was amusing.

He in all probability thought that she was ugly. The expression on his face stated all of it.

Rieta pursed her lips.

“Go on, go wash your face.”

With Noel’s urging, Rieta returned to her room along with her brow uncovered.

She washed her face and combed her bangs down roughly along with her hand, and when she got here out, Noel was already in her room.

He pointed with the tip of his chin to the garments the maid had ready for her.

They had been all out of doors garments.

“Shortly decide one thing up and alter into it.”

“Are we going someplace?”

Rieta requested as she took off the nightgown behind the display screen.

“Sure

“However the Duke will come quickly.”

“He can be late. He stated he would come late within the afternoon.”

“Plainly the negotiations will not be going properly.”

It seemed like she needed to apologize once more, when the Duke returned.

Due to Rieta, he couldn’t correctly negotiate with the retailers, and because of this, the Duchy’s affairs had been sophisticated.

Possibly he wouldn’t blame Rieta.

“Are you modified?”

“Sure, maintain on.”

Rieta, with the assistance of a maid, fixed the shoulder straps and hurried out of the display screen.

“Uh.”

Noel observed one factor as he seemed up and down at Rieta’s chosen out of doors garments.

He retains turning his gaze to different locations.

“That . . . isn’t that too open?”

“Is it?”

Rieta seemed down at her physique and requested.

“It appears regular. I wore this final time I went to the lake too. It’s sizzling as of late.”

“What?!”

Noel routinely glared on the trustworthy maid standing behind Rieta.

The maid, in fact, was not as intimidated by the younger grasp’s gaze.

Quite the opposite, she held her chin excessive and appeared to answer, ‘What’s flawed? It’s simply fairly.’.

Because it’s true that it’s fairly, Noel couldn’t even refute.

He was simply raging.

“Anyway, let’s go.”

“The place?”

When Rieta adopted carefully to Noel’s aspect and requested, he contemplated for a second earlier than shrugging his shoulders.

“Effectively, I haven’t actually considered it.”

When their eyes met, Noel smiled.

He retained the innocence that had not modified since childhood.

“I used to be by no means the sort to arrange something.”

“That’s proper.”

Rieta agreed.

After on the brink of exit, the 2 headed to the entrance door.

All of the servants they encountered alongside the way in which stopped and bowed to greet them.

The explanation why the gazes felt exceptionally heat was in all probability as a result of they hadn’t seen the 2 of them collectively in a very long time.

They used to go round like this on a regular basis once they had been youthful.

Rieta felt her nostril tingle for no cause.

“When did you get the carriage prepared?”

Noel barely raised his nostril at Rieta’s query as she got here out to the entrance door and climbed into the carriage.

“That is nothing,’ he appeared to answer.

As they sat aspect by aspect within the carriage, the butler came visiting and greeted them.

“I’m glad you two have grown sufficient up to now. Have a secure journey.”

“What?!”

Noel and Rieta jumped up from their seats virtually on the similar time.

In fact, because the carriage began, they needed to sit down.

What date. Even when it was a joke, that was just a little an excessive amount of.

Rieta checked out Noel, who was sitting subsequent to her, along with her arms crossed in displeasure.

He additionally didn’t look excellent.

It have to be due to what the butler simply stated.

If Rieta grumbled right here to Noel, wouldn’t Noel be aggravated with the butler later?

“What, are you okay with it?”

So, reluctantly, Rieta determined to face by the butler. She owed him too.

“It’s okay even when it’s a date. Noel, you got here out dressed properly.”

“Isn’t it a bit odd to name it a date simply because we’re properly dressed?”

“If you concentrate on it that means, it’s, however . . .”

Rieta rolled her eyes right here and there, looking for the phrases to steer Noel, however in the long run she solely pursed her lips just a few instances. She couldn’t correctly argue.

“If you wish to do one thing like that.”

Might or not it’s that he was just a little sorry by Rieta’s troubled look?

Noel gave a reasonably easy reply.

“At the very least maintain this.”

He held out his hand.

On his white palms, there have been calluses and scars she had by no means seen earlier than.

Might or not it’s a mark from the academy? Rieta widened her eyes.

“You’re harm, Noel.”

“I stated to carry it, not observe it?”

“It simply bothers me. Is that this a sword minimize?”

“All people has these.”

“I don’t have any.”

“Give me that.”

With Noel’s immediate, Rieta gave her proper hand.

“. . . It’s very small.”

As Noel muttered, Rieta seemed down at her palms.

In fact, her palms weren’t notably small.

It was simply that Noel had grown so huge.

He’d in all probability grown up much more than the final time they met.