The Contract Wife Tries to Leave - Chapter 124
Between her and him, intimacy was purely an act for the sake of conception. That’s why Johanna assumed he wouldn’t visit her for a while.
After all, they had engaged in physical relations throughout the entire week of his rut, so there was no reason to continue. For at least the next four weeks, all that was left was to monitor her condition to see if she had conceived.
So, it came as a complete shock. The late hour, well past ten at night, when Leonid showed up at her room was something she hadn’t even imagined.
“Why have you come…….”
“Did you register your information in the matching system?”
The sudden inquiry struck without warning, leaving her momentarily speechless. Leonid, eyes fixed on the stiffened Johanna, deliberately walked to her bed and sat down on its edge.
“You should have taken care of such things before marrying me.”
“……I apologize.”
It wasn’t a particularly scolding tone, but that made it all the more frightening. His unpredictable words and actions always left Johanna disoriented.
And this time…… it was indeed my fault. As Leonid said, I should have requested to have the information removed before the marriage. It was all due to my own negligence. I never imagined that there would be someone with such a high compatibility rate, let alone that it would be Ilian Rediess.
“Ninety-seven percent,”
he scoffed, as if he couldn’t believe it. His indifferent gaze suddenly turned cold, and his face twisted as if he had been gravely insulted. Johanna instinctively tensed up and hunched her shoulders.
“So, if you hadn’t been tied to me, you would have ended up with that bastard.”
As always, he didn’t hesitate to say words that shamed and wounded Johanna. She felt a surge of anger but bit her lip and held back. Pouring oil onto a fire would only make things worse.
“No, you would’ve done more than just ended up with him. With a compatibility rate of ninety-seven percent.”
He seemed genuinely outraged. And the more he spoke, the deeper his anger seemed to grow.
……Why? I was careless, yes, but is this truly something to provoke such fury?
“With that kind of rate, you would’ve both ended up fully bonded. Isn’t that right?”
“……How could you say such a thing?”
As his accusations, clearly meant to hurt her, continued, Johanna felt an overwhelming sense of disgust rising within her. Her fists clenched tightly in response.
Watching her lips quiver with restrained frustration, Leonid let out a bitter, irritable laugh before muttering in a cold voice.
“During the rut, I bit you more than ten times, yet there’s no bond,”
he remarked indifferently, as if it didn’t matter either way. His apathetic attitude only deepened Johanna’s sense of sorrow. If a bond had been formed? What would he have done then? What would he do with an omega who couldn’t live without him after being bonded……
“……Wasn’t a bond unnecessary between us in the first place?”
Suppressing her trembling voice, she retorted. The faint smirk lingering on his lips slowly hardened, his face turning into a cold, expressionless mask. Unable to face his icy demeanor head-on, she averted her gaze. In response, he stood up and approached her with unhurried steps.
“You’re right.”
“…….”
“A bond isn’t strictly necessary between us. But it wouldn’t hurt to have one either.”
“What do you mean…….”
Instinctively recoiling in fear, Johanna tried to step back, but he firmly grasped her shoulder. His grip, which seemed to bind even her will, left her breathless. Trembling, she looked up at him.
“We can form the bond during the contract period and then find a way to break it later. If you’re bonded to me, you won’t be affected by other alphas’ pheromones.”
Johanna hesitated for a moment. ……It seemed he wasn’t aware of her unique condition. Hadn’t Victoria told him?
……Well, the key detail in her personal information was whether she could have a healthy pregnancy, not her unique condition, so there was no need to report it specifically. Johanna met Leonid’s eyes, which were glimmering with a complex impulse, and spoke.
“There’s no need to control me with a bond. I’m naturally immune to others’ pheromones…….”
“……Immune?”
Leonid raised an eyebrow as if he had heard something unexpected, and stared intently at Johanna. She met his gaze without flinching. After all, what she said was the absolute truth.
“You react to my pheromones.”
“That’s…….”
But here came the critical moment. She wavered, uncertain whether she should lie or tell the truth. If she lied and got caught later, it would cause bigger problems. But if she revealed everything now, it might only add fuel to the fire of someone who was already angry.
Unable to choose either option, her hesitation grew, and Leonid’s next question struck like a hammer blow to her heart.
“What about Ilian Rediess, then?”
His voice was dangerously low, almost seething.
