Cordelia’s eyes dimmed a little, and a wash of sorrow colored her face. After a stretched moment of silence, she softly uttered, “No.”

Zephyr’s heart clenched, and he hugged her tighter.

She was supposed to be the little princess born with a silver spoon in the Irwins, yet she had experienced hardships in the first 20 years of her life. She lived under someone’s roof, struggled to make ends meet, and had to always overcome the world’s hostility to her. She even had to get married in someone else’s place…

Zephyr always wondered if he would be able to still meet Cordelia if he had not coincidentally recovered in that village and replaced Marcus.

If Cordelia did marry Marcus and was abused by him… she would probably just put up with it too.

It was just that there would no longer be light in her eyes.

Zephyr felt the lingering fear just thinking about it and could not help tightening his hold around her shoulders.

Cordelia’s voice was soft. “Zephyr, why are you suddenly talking about this to me?”

“Oh, nothing, just chatting,” he replied in passing,

because of how cute

with a gentle

him

a shoulder was revealed. Her blushing fair face looked like

a woman’s nature.” Zephyr smiled. “Fatherly love actually also comes as an instinct to

her eyes at him. “So, you think my so-called birth father

had no

recalled all that Rowan had done. The old geezer’s love and

himself in Cordelia’s perspective, he thought that someone like that must not be forgiven easily too. However, he thought Rowan was rather

old geezer was, his feelings for Xyla remained the

he couldn’t help. Sometimes, men have a lot of difficulties that are against their will. There’s no win-win in

other side of the

“Cordelia—”

out.” She looked at him. “What’s so difficult that he had to

Zephyr was silent.

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