Without the dream

Joanna stepped out of the inn when the rising sun cast a rosy hue across the morning sky, making a sigh escape her lips with that realization as her father's entourage never left the inn this late.

Walking together with her father and her husband to the front yard of the inn where the carriages had been parked, Joanna separated from her father as they had to take their respective carriages once they arrived at the parking area.

However, before Joanna stepped inside her carriage, where the door was already opened by her husband for her to step in, her focus was shifted, which made her halt and stand in front of the opened door of the carriage.

Three carriages away from the left side of her carriage, she caught sight of the daughter of Viscount Henderson, named Erna, shrunk in the arms of a middle-aged, slightly burly, and average-height man.