I left the caravans filled with goods to the guards and workers sent by Baroness Rose to take care of as I headed off to the manor.
Following me was Nicole, Jessica, and Haley.
Haley was here as the representative of her company, so while the rest of her employees were working, she went to go greet the lord that was Baroness Rose.
As we were heading over to the manor, Haley couldn't help revealing a nervous look.
At the same time, she looked at me as if she wanted to ask something. So I turned to her and asked, "Is something wrong?"
Haley hesitated a bit before asking, "What's the baroness like? Is she strict or is she easy going? Is she…"
She started asking me all kinds of things about Baroness Rose. However, I couldn't help finding it funny since the one that she was asking this was me, the baron.
In the end, I couldn't help teasing her by saying, "You're this nervous about meeting the baroness and you're this casual around me, how should I feel about that?"
Haley was confused for a second before suddenly remembering that I was the baron, Baroness Rose's husband.
She opened her mouth a few times and stammered a bit, but she wasn't able to say anything in the end. After taking a while to recover, she finally said, "Your lordship, I didn't mean anything by…"
Before she could finish though, I raised my hand to cut her off.
She just stared at me with a trace of concern in my voice.
I teased her a bit by looking at her with a serious look, but I couldn't keep that up long before revealing a smile on my face and saying, "You don't need to act so serious with me and you don't need to act so seriously with Rose later."
Haley was caught off guard since she had interacted with nobles before and not a single one had treated her with this kind of familiarity.
Most of them looked down on her because of her status as a commoner, though a few had ignored that with their lewd looks which she didn't enjoy.
This was the first time that she had been treated like an equal by a noble like this.
Seeing the smile on Zwein's face, Haley couldn't help revealing a blush before lowering her head to give a nod.
I didn't understand what the blush was about, but I didn't think too deeply into it.
Our group just continued on our way to the manor.
When we arrived, the maids immediately let us in and brought us to the reception room.
Along the way, the maids asked me all kinds of questions about what the city was like.
In a medieval world like this, it was impossible for maids like this to travel far from where they worked. Not to mention that most of these maids were second or third daughters who had been hired from the farms nearby, so they had never gone outside of this town in the first place.
It wasn't strange that they would be curious about the city.
I answered the questions as best as I could, but there just wasn't enough time for me to answer everything as we were shown to the reception room.
Since we had arrived, the maids couldn't keep asking me more questions about the city and went to do their jobs. It didn't take them long to prepare the tea and snacks for us before going to get Baroness Rose.
With how skilled they were, I could see that they had been well trained while I was away.
At the same time, it didn't take long for Baroness Rose to arrive.
The moment that she entered the room, she became the center of attention.
With how beautiful she was, it was hard for her not to be the center of attention.
But I couldn't help feeling that she was looking even more beautiful than before.
Well it wasn't that strange since her brows were no longer as knitted as before and she had a smile on her beautiful face. Matching the sunlight that came in from the window, it was almost as if she was glowing with her bright red hair.
She walked in elegantly and looked over the room, letting her eyes stop for a moment as they fell onto Haley.
When Haley felt this gaze fall onto her, she couldn't help lowering her head from the pressure that came from Baroness Rose.
She had faced many nobles before, but there wasn't a single one who had the same aura as Baroness Rose.
She couldn't help feeling that this was a true noble and the ones that she had met before were all fakes.
As Baroness Rose's eyes were on Haley, she narrowed them a bit as if she was inspecting her. But in the end, she turned her eyes away to look at Zwein.
The moment that her eyes fell onto me, I could see the change in them.
They went from stern and elegant to the look that a girl would have when she saw her lover.
In fact, without caring about everyone else who were in the room with us, Baroness Rose just ran over to me and threw herself in my arms.
I was caught off guard by this sudden change, but I was still able to react in time to catch her. Then when I was holding her in my arms, she said in a coquettish voice, "Honey, you're finally home."
I couldn't help being taken aback again when I heard this.
After all, this was the first time that she had called me "honey".
While I was in a daze, she suddenly came up so that she was right in front of my face and gave me a kiss without any warning.
She didn't hold back at all as she kissed me, sticking her tongue in, moving her hands, she did almost everything that she could to make it seem intimate.
But that just made everyone else in the room feel awkward…