Nicholas stood rooted with his temples throbbing. After a moment, he looked at Linda with a complicated gaze and said, “Calm down, okay? Zephyr doesn’t wish for this either…”

“What doesn’t he wish for?” Linda raised her voice. “Hah, he’s bored of living his rich heir life in Centrolis and came here pretending to be a former convict to get married?”

“Don’t make it sound so bad. You don’t understand. He was conspired against and got seriously injured. That’s why he hid his identity in Jangasas!”

Linda was quiet for a moment and scanned him judgingly before she scoffed. “You knew so much?”

Nicholas was rendered speechless.

“Nicholas Thompson!”

Nicholas wanted nothing more than to slap himself.

“Zephyr Hamerton!” Linda’s voice was shaking from how furious she was. “Recover and recuperate all you want. Why get Cordelia involved?

“Do you really think you’re a prince? Hah, being a womanizer even when you’re badly injured. How much will your rich heir friends be envious of you when you talk about it in the future? Am I right?

“But what about Cordelia? Will you really be able to marry her!?”

“Linda!” Nicholas looked stern. “Enough!”

Linda took a deep breath and forced her tears back.

The hallway fell into silence suddenly, as if warped into a vacuum.

The light above the emergency ward went out a while later, and Zephyr got up to run over.

“Don’t worry. She’s not in a critical state.” Seth came out with a relieved smile. “Fortunately, the cut was shallow and didn’t cut the artery. As for her other injuries, they’re superficial wounds. She just has to rest up.”

Zephyr’s lips wobbled, and his eyes turned red.

Seth had mixed feelings facing him again. Never in his dreams would he have thought that the man he had saved back then was so distinguished.

He said softly, “M-Mr… Hamerton, the nurses are finishing up inside. Once there’s no anomaly after some observation, Cordelia will be wheeled to the ward.”

and thanked him

licked his lips. “Also, I suggest

“Why?” Zephyr was alarmed.

was almost assaulted. There’s definitely repulsion toward men. It’s a normal reaction. Give her some time

silent

quickly. “I can do it! I’ll go home and pack now and

go with you!” Nicholas

at him. “Mr. Thompson, take a

can’t overgeneralize us. I’m different

him as if saying with her eyes,

immediately, standing on the spot and sighing as he listened to the vanishing sound of her heels clicking on the floor at the other end

you had to stall

appease Cordelia or give me back my

chuckled soundlessly. He was also being

“Mr. Hamerton, even I’m upset that you’ve gone from Marcus Grist to Zephyr Hamerton all

his deep eyes

the past and wanted a chance to tell her everything now… It

palms were cold. The lingering fear could still be

wheeled Cordelia into the

the door for a long time before carefully opening the door and

and bruised. There was a thick bandage of gauze on her

the scene when he barged in. Cordelia had been on the floor, wounded and most of her clothes torn, as she had been crying “Honey, save me”

so much that Zephyr felt

and held her cold hand. There was a pinch in

held his breath as

Don’t come

was still in the nightmare. The man with his pinky missing was cackling, holding a knife. She had called him darling, but

“Ah!”

cried as her eyes flew open. The pain all

voice was

her. He was still handsome with his sculpted

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