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?”

lips. Zephyr’s rough fingers stroked her cheek, his

said that William Jenner forced himself on your mother back then, and that’s how you were born. It also caused your mom’s psychiatric condition, thus her admittance to the mental

and what your mom’s suffered can no longer be accounted for. You having the Jenners’ blood

to take back what you’re entitled to… You need to seek

a daze. She wore a complex expression

had been

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

should I… fight against Yelena for

answered faintly. “Your goal

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

Zephyr was stunned.

what to do. He looked at her gently with approval. She was smart, clever, and tough. She had a soft but strong

an empress—and the man who would stand by the queen in the

back to the bedroom by her hand and patiently tucking her

later, Josiah asked to meet Zephyr at the rooftop of the

As his fingers tensed, he

coughed to stop

Matthew’s really crazy,” Zephyr snorted. “He dares instigate

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

mother’s side, especially, was disdainful

worked from within, disrupting the fund from Melorian to arrive

of Centrolis dragged on,

one can just

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