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!?

seemed that Cordelia was not going to

blanket. The couch was by

Zephyr did not

“Meow!”

lay down and gently

a

“Meow…”

was really gentle in the past. Why’s she

“Meow!”

all women

looked toward a particular

suddenly had a bad feeling about it.

stairs looking at him coldly with a

could not bear that Zephyr only had a thin throw blanket.

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