It felt like there was a loud explosion in Cordelia’s heart.

Zephyr’s extended hand paused in the air before he slowly pulled it back.

“I’ve lied to you,” he said. “I’ve also caused you harm.”

Cordelia screwed her eyes shut and cried.

She finally understood why he seemed to have an extraordinary aura, why every difficulty she met would always be resolved, why he never cared about money, why he seemed fearless…

He was the heir of the Hamertons. The whole world was under his feet. What was there for him to be scared of?

Cordelia chuckled wryly. She had called him silly in the past, but she was actually the silly one who had been tricked!

“Cordelia—”

“Please leave.”

Cordelia hid under the covers. Her weak voice came from the small gap.

and her quivering body. He wanted to pat her back and keep her in his embrace like he used to, but he could

ward and sat on the

to their rented place again, she

mind, so she asked gently,

these days. Moreover, no one other than herself

opened the door with her key. When she changed into her slippers, she saw

home

punching bags and boxing gloves for his training on the balcony, clothes he changed out of in the bathroom’s laundry basket, and loungewear he usually wore draped on the back of

leaned against each other on the rack above the sink like

a pinch on her nose, and her

the bedroom, the sheets were what she had changed not too long ago. They had picked out the

once told him seriously that the iris’ meaning was brimming love and happiness. She just did not know that the iris had a hidden symbol—hopeless

house. Everything stayed the same, yet

rest. What do

sat by the bed with her eyes

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