This was completely different from their usual chats. Zephyr would never ramble about these to her!

Therefore, there were only two possibilities in regard to his unusual behavior.

First, he was indirectly blaming her for not giving him a child. Second, was he having thoughts about… abandoning her?

Cordelia stopped what she was doing abruptly. She had dove right into this train of thought, and her tears welled up right away with the pang she felt.

“Cordelia… Darling!” Zephyr panicked. “I don’t mean it like that. You’ve misunderstood me!”

“Don’t touch me!” Cordelia cried and picked up his pillow to throw it outside.

Zephyr put himself in front of her frantically and wanted to use the trick Nicholas had taught him. Before he was able to get on his knees, though, Cordelia had shoved him out of the door alongside a blanket!

Zephyr patted the bedroom door and finally understood what the idiom ‘a cat on a hot tin roof’ meant—as well as ‘shooting himself in the foot’. Had he turned stupid after just a meal with Josiah? Why was he speaking on Rowan’s behalf!?

bedroom after a long time. It seemed that Cordelia

room but curled up on the couch, hugging the blanket. The couch was by the window,

door, and Ginger scurried inside. Seeing that Zephyr did not chase it out, it hopped onto the couch and snuggled into

“Meow!”

and

mom’s got a huge temper,” he

“Meow…”

remember that she was really gentle in the past. Why’s she getting fiercer

“Meow!”

all women

reply but looked toward a

feeling about it. He followed where

him

colder tonight, and while she was angry in their room, she could not bear that Zephyr only had a thin throw blanket.

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