Cordelia’s head was tilted. A wash of indifference flashed across her pretty face.

“My decision is… I refuse to,” she said without any hesitation.

The answer was slightly out of Zephyr’s expectations, but he wanted to know what his wife was thinking.

“I grew up in an abnormal family.” Cordelia rested against him and said slowly, “Dad’s nothing more than a noun, mom’s never had a clear mind, and I had to take care of my younger brother. I also had to endure Joanne and Yelena’s bullying and insults. I honestly don’t know what the Jenners have brought me.

“This family has never given me warmth. There’s no need for me to contribute to the Jenners either.” Cordelia looked up at him. “I’m already your wife. I’m Mrs. Grist. I’m no longer related to the Jenners. Moreover, my dad’s intention in asking me to go back isn’t pure. I don’t want to be his chess piece.

“Darling…” Cordelia wrapped her arms around his waist. “I just want the two of us to enjoy our lives without thinking about anything else.”

Zephyr stroked her back. He could not fully empathize with her but understood the psychological trauma it would cause a child growing up in an abnormal family.

The Hamertons looked rich and dandy on the outside, but it was not exactly a normal family. It was even more twisted and dark.

Zephyr did not want Cordelia to be aggrieved, but she had to learn to dance with the wolves. It was the law of survival.

He sighed softly and told her, “Cordelia, I don’t actually think so.”

“What?”

“I can understand that you no longer want anything to do with the Jenners, but you can’t change the fact that you’re tied to them this whole life. It’s a fact that you’re related by blood, and it won’t disappear just because you cut contact with them.”

Cordelia’s bright eyes dimmed abruptly.

“Have you thought about your mom?”

stroked her cheek,

back then, and that’s how you were born. It also caused your mom’s psychiatric

suffered can no longer be accounted for. You having the Jenners’

to take back what you’re entitled to… You

She

had ever told her these, and she had never thought about it. She had been living in her joy and sorrow

in his embrace. This had become her habit. Whenever she grew emotional, she would snuggle into his arms. The man’s warm

softly, “Honey, should I… fight

the goal,” Zephyr answered faintly. “Your goal is to teach those who’ve hurt you a

for a bit. After that, she looked up at him determinedly

Zephyr was stunned.

that, the sparkle in Cordelia’s eyes told him that she knew what to do. He looked at her gently with approval. She was smart, clever, and tough. She had a

a woman like this had the destiny of an empress—and the man who would stand by the queen in the

her back to the bedroom by

the rooftop of the Regalia building to tell him about the land west

his fingers tensed,

coughed to stop

snorted. “He dares instigate my grandfather’s

force of Zephyr’s maternal grandfather was in Ricos and Melorian. The five top finance institutions in Chaiseland that Zephyr

Chaiseland recently. Zephyr’s maternal grandfather’s doting on him had caused dissatisfaction from the family’s direct descendants. Zephyr’s uncle on his mother’s side, especially, was disdainful about it, thinking that his father had given all the benefits to someone who

this as instigation, and Zephyr’s maternal uncle worked from within, disrupting the fund from Melorian

Centrolis

pie one can just bite off. A wrong move will actually cause him damage. We just have to wait and observe. There’ll be a way to take care

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