Time-Limited Love: A Contract Expired, Not Renewed novel Chapter 313

If this had happened before, Landon’s response would have been exactly what she expected.

But today, even Zinnia herself thought Landon would turn her down.

And yet, Landon agreed.

She stared at her phone in surprise for half a second before grinning and nodding eagerly.

“Okay... okay, Landon, I’ll come find you right now.”

“Zinnia.”

Landon’s voice came through the phone, calling her name.

“Mr. Ford, since you’re in touch with Noelle now, you don’t need me to play messenger anymore. My class is about to start, so I’ll hang up.”

Zinnia didn’t give Landon a chance to respond—she simply ended the call.

Noelle, standing right in front of her, no longer looked panicked. Instead, her eyes sparkled with smug satisfaction as she met Zinnia’s gaze.

“Did you hear that? I told you—Landon could never be cruel to me.”

She dropped the innocent act completely, her look turning openly triumphant, almost taunting.

“Between you and me, Landon will always choose me. As for you, you pathetic mutt...”

She glanced down at Dapper, sitting clueless in his stroller, and let out a cold, mocking laugh.

“It doesn’t even matter that it’s still alive. Even if my mother really had tossed it down the sewer and killed it, that would just be its fate. Look, this time again, Landon chose me. Ha!”

Crack!

Noelle’s gloating was cut short by a sharp slap across her face.

Her laughter died in her throat. She clutched her cheek, staring at Zinnia in disbelief.

“Zinnia, did you just hit me?”

“You... you...”

“There’s no such thing as ‘I don’t hit women’ with me,” Yuri said, his voice flat, his expression icy and dangerous. “If you still can’t figure out how to talk like a human being, I’d be happy to give you a private lesson.”

His dark, threatening tone startled even Zinnia. From the first moment she’d met Yuri, he’d always struck her as gentle and steady.

But now, facing Noelle, he looked like he might actually break her hand right then and there.

“S-sorry. I shouldn’t have said that...”

Noelle broke out in a cold sweat from the pain. In the end, she could only give in, trembling as she apologized to Yuri.

But Yuri was unmoved, his gaze growing even frostier.

“You’re apologizing to the wrong person. Whoever your filthy mouth just insulted—that’s who you apologize to.”

Shame and humiliation burned on Noelle’s face, but the pain was too much. Reluctantly, she turned to Zinnia and mumbled an apology.