Those few days, Cordelia kept Zephyr at arm’s length and was lukewarm to him. She also took a work leave from Imperial Media and went home to take care of Xyla.

After Xyla heard about the reason for their fight, she laughed so hard that she nearly poured the whole bottle of water into her succulents.

“That’s it?” She poked Cordelia’s head and whined. “You’re growing more insensible the older you get!”

“Mom…” Cordelia rubbed her head.

As she calmed down, she also thought she was a little oversensitive this time. It was just that women seemed to have the most accurate sixth sense, and she felt that Zephyr was unlike how he always was that night. His words seemed to imply something else.

“Zephyr’s just expressing his thoughts. Do you have to think so much into it?”

“But he mentioned my father…” Cordelia swallowed the rest of her words studying Xyla’s expression.

Xyla looked nonchalant, but there was an almost unnoticeable quiver in her hands that were watering the plants.

She looked at Cordelia affectionately. “Silly girl, Zephyr’s, unlike your father.”

This was Cordelia’s first time hearing her mother bring up her father on her own initiative. She was also immensely curious about him.

“Mom, back when dad abandoned us… did he

moment, Xyla forced a smile and said, “Yeah.” Her expression

“Do you hate him?”

Xyla was surprised but shook her head with a

he was just using her to take revenge on the Irwins, she was sad and devastated but never hateful. Hatred solved nothing—it would only push someone into an

you promise me one

“What?”

gaze was gentle as she told her softly, “If

she not hate him? That man had abandoned them first. To placate her mother, however,

your misunderstanding’s outrageous.” Xyla smiled. “Give him a call and tell him that you’re going home

mother from the back, pressing her cheek on her

dinner with you

a straight face. “I’m

cook so well, and you’re bored of

that she met Xyla’s smiling gaze. She flushed and took the watering can to water the

are you trying to drown my

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