The General's Wife Wants to Leave-Chapter 60: To create a distance

And the man was indeed right as when he took an action the rampant woman turned quiet.

"After leaving without informing your husband of your exact location and passing him a message to return to his homeland alone, now you dare kick and hit him?" The man spoke, his low voice sounding deep and menacing. Straightening his body from the bending position as the impact he felt from the never-ending attack of the woman, the man now towered over the woman.

"Not even giving a consideration to the letter he left. And now you are going to kill him?" Another word came out of the man’s lips. He looked down at the woman before him with a serious and hard expression.

The hands, which grabbed the woman’s wrists which were now positioned not far in front of his chest, tightened. And he seemed to not care even the dagger that was still held in her hand was pointed at his chest.

At the deep voice of the man standing close to her, in the range that she could feel his breath brushing past her face, Joanna turned stiff. Her current state was a stark contrast to her state before as if the struggling woman who had fiercely kicked, hit, and even tried to stab the man with the dagger before was not her.

Looking up at the man, she stared at the green eyes, which glinted in the dim space, unblinkingly. Those were a pair of eyes that she had seen before. How could she say that those eyes were not familiar to her if the face of the owner of the eyes was the face of a person that she had last mentioned in her prayer not long ago?

"What? Are you surprised to see your husband here instead of returning to Archess?" The man inquired with a smirk when he noticed the woman was now quiet, not as wild as a few seconds ago. "Or maybe not surprised, but disappointed?" He added as if not enough to pour out his feelings after what had been done by the woman to him.

"Breath," he demanded as he found her still in a daze, not responding to him with her cold self as he expected. His voice was barely above a whisper.

At the man’s voice, Joanna, who subconsciously held her breath when she realized who the man before her was, let the air out before taking it in through her nose in a quick movement as her lungs had been deprived of oxygen.

And she still met him, the last person she mentioned in her prayer.

Still fixating her eyes on the man whom she never imagined to be here, standing right before her, she realized that his figure was not familiar to her as, besides the lack of light and panicking state, she had only seen him once. Aside from that, she did not pay attention to him at that time as she was reluctant to see him and was too busy to think hard to make him agree to annul their marriage.

And, of course, she still met him this time as she was still alive, not dead yet which would end their encounter that had already happened in this lifetime.

However, even though she was still alive, she would not have met him again if he returned to Archess as he grew annoyed at her because of her disrespectful conduct.

Then, what was he doing here? How could he find her here? Joanna questioned in her mind.

"I haven’t fulfilled my duty as a husband to you yet you wanted to ruin our chance to make our marriage flourish?" Upon the words she just heard that had grasped her wandering thought, Joanna only blinked her eyes with her head slightly tilted to the side.

"Are you that determined to get rid of me by failing me to complete the crucial stage to strengthen our marital bond?" the man asked again, holding the questioning eyes of the woman in his.

Finding the previously berserk woman turn completely quiet with her puzzled expression that was too obvious to capture, Canillas whispered, "Marriage consummation. Do you get it now, wife?" And one corner of his lips tugged up when he found her big eyes grew wider.

Trying to create a distance between them when her confusion was finally dissipated by the man’s final words, Joanna was about to take a step backward.

However, her left wrist by which the dagger was still in the hold, which was still in the grip of the General, was pulled to his side by him, so that it would not stab him. And it caused Joanna’s front body to bump with his chest. His other hand let go of her right hand, sliding behind her back.

Protesting, Joanna tried to pull away from his embrace, wriggling while pushing his chest with her free hand. Nevertheless, it was only a useless effort as the large, strong man did not even budge, let alone release his hold on her. Instead, the hand behind her back pushed her body closer to him.

When Joanna was about to open her mouth to say something to him, which was for sure a cold, protesting remark, she was suddenly pushed back behind the large tree trunk where she hid before by Canillas. Her mouth was once again covered by his left hand which was placed on her back to cage her before and it was tightened more when Joanna wriggled to release from him, hitting his toned chest with her free hand which was balled into a fist.

But it did not take long for Joanna to stop rebelling as she realized why the General covered her mouth with his hand and brought her back to her previous hiding place, making her back lean against the tree trunk. freёnovelkiss.com

She was staring at him with her big eyes and he calmly held her panicking gaze in his.

Both husband and wife were standing close to each other, face to face, while listening to the footsteps of more than three people coming in their direction.