If You Leave Without a Word - Chapter 107
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The smile that had been lingering at Cain’s lips vanished. It had been there ever since he started mocking Agatha’s reading preferences.
“Perhaps you could give me the gift of divorce as a birthday present?”
Cain seemed taken aback by the mention of divorce, as if he hadn’t anticipated it at all.
“You promised to give me anything I wanted.”
“…This is going too far, Wife.”
The composure that had been evident in his eyes disappeared, replaced by anger. Though Agatha wasn’t sure what the anger was directed at, she felt a small sense of satisfaction at having disrupted Cain’s calm demeanor.
“Say it again. What is it that you want?”
Cain rose from his seat. As he stood up, Agatha found herself instinctively tilting her head back.
It must have been disconcerting for him to see the woman who had once bowed her head and acted submissively suddenly show her spiky side.
Yes, that anger on Cain’s face must be because of that. The fact that she dared to bring up the end of their relationship, when she had previously been willing to accept anything he proposed, must be what displeased him.
Cain’s tight-lipped, furrowed brow felt oddly familiar. She couldn’t even remember the last time she’d seen him smile. Therefore, his angry expression didn’t intimidate her.
The naive wife who once blushed and was at a loss over his slightest attention had vanished. Agatha reflected on that.
“It was a joke.”
“A joke?”
“Seeing you tease me since this morning made me want to play along with the joke.”
If she was to say she was willing to part ways, Cain would likely feel a sense of triumph inwardly. She had no intention of maintaining this false relationship any longer, but she wasn’t going to end it in the way Cain might have hoped.
“To bring up divorce as a joke. That’s rather reckless of you, Wife.”
Staring up at the towering Cain while sitting made Agatha feel dizzy. Yet, she didn’t want to show weakness in front of him, so she braced herself with her legs.
The two of them stood facing each other in silence for a moment, each seemingly choosing their words carefully as they gazed into each other’s eyes.
Finally, Agatha broke the awkward silence first.
“Yes, I am reckless. As you already know well.”
Cain’s brow lifted in an unpleasant manner, a habit of his when confronted with something he disliked.
“If I were a more serious person, I wouldn’t have proceeded with the marriage to you.”
Her comment was not meant to elicit a response. It was simply intended to scratch his heart with a few words, or at least to disturb his mood, even if just a little.
“What…”
As Cain started to speak, Agatha’s face, passing him by, remained cold.
Don’t be surprised; I will soon disappear just as you wish. With those words swallowed back, Agatha walked away without looking back, and the cold glass door clicked shut behind her.
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Time that she wished would stop and a world she wished would crumble all flowed by busily, contrary to her wishes. Reflecting on the four years that had passed since her marriage to Cain Vernat, Agatha let out a shallow sigh.
She was now colder than ever. In her life up to this point, she had never acted or moved of her own accord.
With her mind in turmoil, Agatha spent the night awake, beginning to draw plans for how to end things.
“Madam, the gift from the Marquis has arrived.”
A familiar voice pulled Agatha from her thoughts. Turning slowly, she saw a middle-aged woman standing with a large bundle in her arms, smiling warmly. It was Teschen, with her ample figure and gentle demeanor. Agatha gazed at her face silently.
“Oh my, just look at this. It’s dazzling.”
Naive Liana’s eyes sparkled as she eagerly rushed toward the gift, believing it was from Cain. Teschen, with a beaming smile on her face, gave a slight shrug of satisfaction to Liana.
However, to be precise, those were not gifts from Cain. Agatha could vividly imagine Cain’s indifferent nod as his aide selected suitable gifts for the bothersome wife without even checking them.
“Send them back.”
Agatha had no intention of allowing any of those items into her room.
“What?”
“Don’t even unwrap them. Just send them back as they are.”
“Oh, no. Madam, what are you saying?”
Tesshen and the maids who had followed her looked at Agatha with astonished eyes, unable to believe that she would refuse the Marquis’s gift, meant to honor his sole wife.
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Cain’s last birthday gift was a diamond known as the ‘Fragment of the Sun’. It was so precious that it was beyond valuation—a fragment of the sun itself.
Ironically, this rare gem felt like a trap to Agatha. It symbolized a binding constraint she couldn’t escape from in this dismal marriage.
Therefore, she couldn’t accept it. No, she didn’t want to.
