The Villain Is Obsessed With His Fake Wife

14. Do you know what a dangerous thing you said?

John’s gaze stuck to her and she didn’t know what would happen. She smiled brightly at John.

“I’m fine now. You can do whatever the Duke wants.”

“What do I want to do?”

Red eyes shone brightly as if they were staring at her. The feeling itself was different from usual. But she couldn’t figure out what emotions were in it.

‘I’m anxious for no reason.’

All she could figure out was that John seemed to be getting crazier.

“Yes. He tried to slander the Duke at will, so I punished him myself!”

She was worried about a strange flag, but she couldn’t go back and forth, so she decided to keep it.

“It’s just that, so I can do anything now. Kill or not, do as you wish, Duke.”

She kept smiling to show she was serious.

“Estelle. Aren’t you afraid of me?”

A strange tension began to rise between the two of them.

“Why do you think I would be afraid of the Duke?”

She’d be lying if she said she wasn’t afraid of John. She was so scared of John, she was afraid that her future, which she would trample on, would be betrayed and killed. However, in this situation, John’s fear was a different matter.

“I am not afraid of the Duke.”

“You saw everything.”

John whispered in a languid voice.

“I am a human who can trample on and kill people more easily than anyone else. Did you hear all about the murders in the capital?”

“…”

“If I had known that, the story would have been easier.”

A twinkle appeared in his eyes.

“Can I handle my wife?”

Gulp- 

She involuntarily swallowed her saliva.

“…Did you do that for no reason?”

“Your wife is very naive.”

A smile crept across John’s lips.

“The reason for such an action is not important. What matters is the result. You can’t find a reason for ugly evil deeds. Then the essence becomes blurred.”

John described himself as a wicked man and condemned himself.

“Can we all act that way if there was a good reason? Can you believe that the reason is true?”

John deliberately kicked Anton in the head with force.

“Even though you’ve seen me treat people like this right in front of your eyes?”

The elegant and lofty atmosphere like a gentleman made it look more brutal. But she shook her head.

“What if the Duke isn’t afraid?”

“Why would this be scary?”

A sarcastic voice at first glance.

“I bet she’s not stupid enough to not understand what I’m saying.”

John tilted his head and met her gaze. A deep red light like an abyss contained her. There was something she didn’t know. She wasn’t as selfless or nice, alert and kind as John thought.

‘Why doesn’t the reason matter?’

As someone who was abused at Libertan for no reason, she couldn’t relate to John’s words. The world wasn’t made up of only results. Above all, she was not very sympathetic.

‘Sympathy is for those who can afford it.’

There was no room for anything in her life right now. So there was no room for others. Especially a place for such garbage.

“Think carefully before regretting. Your husband isn’t such a good person that you’d stand up for him like that. Rather, he is more of a terrible person.”

‘I’m sorry, I know.’

“So what? Should I hate the Duke for something I don’t even know much about?”

John bit his chin hard. Watching the masculine neckline wriggling, she looked straight into his red eyes.

“Honestly, if the Duke is such a terrible person, why are you giving me such a warning?”

“To reassure you that way.”

“If you hit it like that, you can’t do anything.”

The formal smile on John’s face disappeared. Suddenly, her heart started pounding.

‘I haven’t done anything wrong again, right?’

The point at which she fell in earnest in the original work was when she confessed her love to John. But even before that, Estelle used to say a lot of things that showed her liking for John. To be precise, she just didn’t confess her love. So, wouldn’t it be a narrow cut-off to express this level of affection? The atmosphere cooled down. A strange feeling of pressure seemed to oppress her. Still, she did not avert her gaze. He didn’t even change his words.

“I can’t help it even if I don’t understand the Duke’s point of view and look stupid.”

“…”

“Because that is my truth.”

Seeing her trembling inwardly for no reason, John covered her eyes with his big hand and let out a bright smile.

‘Why are you laughing all of a sudden?’

She didn’t know if she knew about John. John, who had been giggling for a while, looked at her and tilted his head.

“…Do you know what a dangerous thing my wife just said?”

“Me?”

She thought she only said that she was deceived even though she knew it.

“What did I say?”

“I thought you didn’t know.”

John nodded his head without any explanation. He looked at Anton, who seemed to be out of breath. The death of an extra was really worthless.

“I’ll let that one breathe.”

Those words put her mind at ease. Even so, she didn’t want to see people die in front of her eyes.

‘More than anything else, I’m glad that John’s heart seems to have softened.’

She was not sure what part of her heart was broken.

‘It’s so strange.’

She didn’t know why John looked so happy. Anton wriggled as if to say something. John, who caught the situation, stepped on Anton’s neck. Only the sound of breathing was left.

“Instead, I can’t let this bug live until the end. There is no treatment, of course.”

That was the same as saying that he would not kill ‘on the spot’ after all.

“Because he dared to hurt my wife.”

But even with that, she didn’t care.

“As for that, the Duke, please do as you please.”

“No. I will follow my wife’s advice.”

What?

“He tried to harm my wife, so I should do what she wants.”

John asked in a kind voice. She felt restrained madness and violence in him now.

“How would you like me to kill you?”

But the words themselves seemed to respect her. What kind of situation was this?

“I’m still alive, so if you want to torture me, you can order it.”

“I am…”

She didn’t know how to say it to make John like it.

“I don’t want to see Anton anymore. I hope this will be over soon.”

“And?”

“I’m not sure about the rest.”

“Originally, this kind of request is the most difficult.”

John nodded his head leisurely.

“Many things come to mind, but I think he wants a clean death.”

Fortunately, John seemed to understand her well.

“As my wife wants.”

A sweet voice leaning toward her. At that moment, Anton’s wriggling body suddenly fluttered and disappeared. His dark blood splattered nearby, including John. It happened so quickly that she couldn’t even see it properly. She was so startled that her body stiffened. People could disappear so quickly. When the fishy smell of blood touched her, it felt like her body was in shock that she couldn’t even recognize. John didn’t care about the blood on his body and slowly wiped the blood that had splattered on his cheek.

“Probably went without pain. I’ve never died like that before, so I don’t know.”

Covered in the remaining blood, John smiled mischievously.

“Tell me what you want. I’ll do the rest.”

‘Sorry, I never wanted anything like that.’

* * *

John took her out of the room. When she went outside, she felt relieved of the foul smell of blood.

‘All I thought was that Anton’s corpse would disappear.’

Although she had been told he was atrocious, she did not know how to use this direct method. Even with the cool breeze outside, she vividly remembered Anton’s death.

‘Won’t I have nightmares at night?’

The good thing was that she didn’t usually dream well. Even once she started to fall asleep, she fell asleep so deeply that no one could wake her up.

‘I’ll be fine.’

Thinking that way made her head feel better.

“John?”

John, who was taking her in the middle of the day, stopped before she knew it and just stood in front of the stairs. She looked at him and tilted his head.

“What’s going on?”

After a moment of hesitation, he looked at her face and gave her a friendly smile.

“Nothing. I suddenly had a strange idea.”

“Weird idea?”

“This one.”

He looked at her and hugged her. She could feel the firmness of his large body, enough to envelop her.

“I should have hugged you as soon as you came in.”

“…”

“I couldn’t take good care of my wife by cleaning up that trash.”

Even in the midst of fear, there was a strange sense of stability.

“Were you very scared?”

John’s hand patting her back.

“It’s fine. Because the Duke came right away. And this.”

She showed John her wrist. When Anton tried to drag her away by force, this red trail heated up slightly and protected her.

“In the meantime, the Duke’s traces have protected me.”

John looked at her wrist with a strange gaze for a moment, then grinned.

“That protective spell, it works only if my wife has been thinking about me for a long time.”

“Pardon?”

“As expected, you believed in me and kept waiting.”

She didn’t know that such a simple magic had such a secret.

‘He knew I was thinking about him.’

It’s not a bad thing because she could prove what she had been saying so far. However, she was ashamed to feel that her inner feelings had been exposed. Maybe because she was embarrassed, her cheeks became hot.

‘Is not it?’

After thinking that it was hot, her head got a little dizzy.

‘Looks like Anton’s job was harder than I thought.’

Originally, there were times when she shed a lot of tears or had a sudden fever when she went through hard things. In particular, it seemed that it was very difficult to be threatened with a dagger.

“But where are we going now?”

“My room.”

“What?”

“I can’t leave you here because I’m worried about my wife. From now on, I will sleep with you in my room.”

The eyes that were watching John widened.

‘I can’t seem to be comfortable even when I sleep now!’

It’s not that John keeps disturbing her when she sleeps, but she’s had some heart problems. It was not comfortable to be conscious of John by her side.

“Don’t worry. My wife’s room is separate. You will only stay with me when you sleep.”

It’s a problem that we’re only together when we’re sleeping!

“Would we sleep together every night?”

“Why? Do you hate sleeping with me?”

“It’s not like that…”

“Does that sound like a reaction?”

So anyway, it’s sharp.

“Or was it because I heard strange noises?”

John bent his knees and made eye contact with her. Suddenly, his face moved a little closer, so she jumped back.

“I haven’t heard much about it.”

“About my wife’s family line?”

“I did hear about the Duke of Libertan.”

She put everything outside anyway. She grumbled inwardly and answered calmly.

“Do not worry. I don’t believe anything the untrustworthy person says.”

“My wife, don’t worry all the time.”

“But I really don’t have to worry.”

She wouldn’t be shocked if she heard something she already knew. Such a shock was already received enough when I recalled the original work.

“All I heard was that my husband was the culprit in putting the Duke of Libertan in debt.”

At that moment, John’s face hardened slightly.

“So I thought about why you brought me on the condition of canceling the debt. Then I remembered what you had said to me before.”

Anyway, John wouldn’t tell her anything for revenge. She also didn’t have any expectations. So she laughed bashfully.

“You told me I was worth that much.”

“…”

“So I decided to believe it one more time.”

His big hand gripped her hand, and strength went into it. His red eyes looked at her rather confusedly. Perhaps to clean up the traces of Anton’s death, servants of the Blanchett family were moving around. Among them was one she knew.

‘Baroness Patricia Gillite.’

Her dark brown hair was neatly tied up so that not a single strand of her hair was tangled up, cold blue-green eyes, and a face that did not change its expression like a plaster cast. Even in her posture, standing still, she could feel that exacting and stern attitude.

‘The head maid of the Blanchett family.’

In the original story, she played the role of a mother-in-law who bullied and harassed her inside the house. She thought they would meet someday, but she never thought they would meet in such a tired place.

‘She’s a more tired opponent than Erich.’

Erich was Johann’s aide, so she didn’t see him often, but Patricia was the head maid of this house, so she and her, the hostess, were always bumping into each other. Unlike Erich, who even revealed her circumstances, it was difficult to deal with Patricia because her past history was not revealed.

“Hello, madam. I’ll be the first to say hello. My name is Patricia Gilitera, the head maid of the Blanchett family. I have been so distracted that I have not been able to say hello.”

Patricia walked slowly and politely bowed her head to her.

“Are you feeling well? I heard that you suffered greatly because of my negligence. Sorry-“

Her vision was more blurry than before.

‘I shouldn’t have shown her such a bad side from the first meeting.’

She staggered, unable to overcome the heat that rose from her head. John, who was holding onto her, hastily hugged her.

“Ma’am. Why did your body heat up from earlier-”

In the faintly receding field of view, she could see people buzzing in embarrassment, and John’s shocked eyes.

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